You can’t take a crash course in serenity.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Peace
Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Change
I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Independence
It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Promises
My gift is that I’m not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It’s about health and being in good shape.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Career
I’m in love with the potential of miracles. For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Security, Safety
Sex is hardly ever just about sex
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Sex
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Fear, Friendship, Travel
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.
—Shirley MacLaine
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Humor
You can’t lie when you dance. It’s so direct. You do what is in you. You can’t dance out of the side of your mouth.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Dance
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Change, Possibilities
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