Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.
— Shirley MacLaine
When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
I can be a lazy slob.
Being old is such a treat!
We need proof in our society.
Movie makers now choose profit over vision.
I'm not one for wardrobe.
There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.
I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.
I never would have given up my work to stay home.
Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.
I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.
The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.
I don't like to socialise much.
I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.
My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.
When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.
I've gotten crankier in my old age.
I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.
I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!
Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
Things are done according to money these days.
I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.
I make my mistakes in public.
The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.
I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
I'm not interested in fame at all.
The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.
Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.
Well, success does not mean doing well.
You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
People think I'm nuts.
You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.
I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.
It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.
Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.
I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.
Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.
I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.
I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.
I can't give up my own identity.
I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.
You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.
