Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are, you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance. Shirley Maclaine
When you look back on your life and try to figure out where you’ve been and where you are going, when you look at your work, your love affairs, your marriages, your children, your pain, your happiness – when you examine all that closely, what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself. Shirley Maclaine
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. Shirley MacLaine
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. Shirley MacLaine
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. Shirley MacLaine
It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office. Shirley MacLaine
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. Shirley MacLaine
I’ve never cared whether a picture makes money or not. Now I care, because it’s all about whether they’ll finance the next one. And we’ve got to start making better pictures in Hollywood. Shirley MacLaine