Shirley MacLean Beaty (b.1934,) known professionally as Shirley MacLaine, is an American film and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author. She has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy twice, for her roles in The Apartment and Irma la Douce, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress–Motion Picture Drama twice for Terms of Endearment and Madame Sousatzka. She was honored with the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998. She was nominated for an Academy Award five times before winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1983 for her role as Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment. She won the 1976 Emmy Award for Outstanding Special–Comedy-Variety or Music for Gypsy in My Soul in addition she has also won two BAFTA Awards from seven nominations.
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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
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
I’m in love with the potential of miracles. For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Safety, Security
Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Change
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Humor
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Fear, Travel, Friendship
Sex is hardly ever just about sex
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Sex
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
You can’t take a crash course in serenity.
—Shirley MacLaine
Topics: Peace
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
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 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
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