Shirley MacLaine - biography

“In front of a camera, I have to be careful what I think - it all shows.”

“I taught [Audrey Hepburn] to cuss, she taught me to dress.”

“In America, the buck is God.”

“Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late.  Someday change will be accepted as life itself.”

“You do not die, you just change form.  You are divine, as is everything.”

“Billy Wilder’s very dominating.  He knows what he wants and he’s absolutely certain.  Willy Wyler will try maybe four different ways.  Billy is almost always right - Willy is, too.”

“I’ve made so many movies playing a hooker that they don’t pay me in the regular way anymore.  They leave it on the dresser.”

“I’ve probably been in more movies with Dean Martin than even Dean Martin has.”

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”

“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.”

“I’m certain I was a prostitute in some other life.  I just have empathy for them.”

“It’s not about deserving to win - because no one deserves to lose.  I thought I might win for The Apartment until Elizabeth Taylor had her tracheotomy.”

“Politics?  Ah, the real entertainment...”

“I used to think sex was like having dinner.  I don’t think that now.  Sex is a serious undertaking.  My view is more spiritual.  It’s the most intimate exchange of human energy.  You live with the interaction of those sparks for a long time afterwards.”

“I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.”

“A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.”

“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb.  It’s where all the fruit is.”

“For me, the safest place is out on a limb.”

“I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence.  The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.”

“I’d like to introduce someone who has just come into my life.  I’ve admired him for 35 years.  He’s someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I’m actually sleeping with him.”

“It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.”

“Sex is hardly ever just about sex.”

“The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.”

Shirley MacLaine has appeared in the following films:
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Artists and Models (1955)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
The Sheepman (1958)
Hot Spell (1958)
The Matchmaker (1958)
Some Came Running (1958)
Ask Any Girl (1959)
Career (1959)
Can-Can (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
Ocean’s Eleven (1960)
All in a Night’s Work (1961)
Two Loves (1961)
The Children’s Hour (1961)
My Geisha (1962)
Two for the Seesaw (1962)
Irma la Douce (1963)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965)
Gambit (1966)
Woman Times Seven (1967)
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
Sweet Charity (1969)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Desperate Characters (1971)
The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)
The Turning Point (1977)
Being There (1979)
Loving Couples (1980)
A Change of Seasons (1980)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Cannonball Run II (1984)
Madame Sousatzka (1988)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Waiting for the Light (1990)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Used People (1992)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
Guarding Tess (1994)
Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
The Evening Star (1996)
A Smile Like Yours (1997)
Bruno (2000)
Carolina (2003)
Bewitched (2005)
In Her Shoes (2005)
Rumor Has It... (2005)
Closing the Ring (2007)
Rosemont (2008)
Poor Things (2008)
Bernie (2011)