Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLean Beaty, known professionally as Shirley MacLaine, is an American film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author. MacLaine has won an Academy Award, five Golden Globe Awards, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an Emmy Award and two BAFTA Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth24 April 1934
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
Shirley MacLaine quotes about
secret actresses awareness
The secret is to let the audience feel through the actress, rather than having the actress feel for the audience. When you can do that, you involved the audience almost without their knowledge or awareness.
movie mirrors acting
I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.
movie brother play
The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.
order tree fruit
In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.
eye tears faces
I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.
done these-days
Things are done according to money these days.
pain sides breakthrough
... when things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain.
casting couches knows
You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.
cutting night weight
the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.
technology self self-knowledge
Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.
divorce technology vision
We cannot divorce what we are producing from what we are. We create technology out of the vision we have of ourselves. If we are blind in our conception of ourselves we will create a blind technology.
architect personal-experiences
You are the architect of your personal experience.
dance art honesty
To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.
inner-peace matter stuff
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.