Shirley MacLaine Art Quotations

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.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

Why do people have to love people anyway?

He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.

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.

Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.