Shirley MacLaine People Quotations

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

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 don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

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.

He's an expert filmmaker, and he's an ex-journalist, so he really knows how to investigate what people are feeling, ... And I found it fascinating that he wanted to go into something that dealt with women's feelings.

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.

People think I'm nuts.

You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.

Why do people have to love people anyway?

The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.

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.

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.