Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
— Shirley MacLaine
I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.
The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.
I don't feel competitive.
Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.
If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.
Crystals amplify the consciousness.
I don't do like diva trips and stuff.
I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Sex is hardly ever just about sex.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
I live in too many cities.
We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.
Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.
I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
