Shirley MacLaine Thinking Quotations

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

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.

People think I'm nuts.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

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.

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

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

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 think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.

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

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.

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 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.

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

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.