Shirley MacLaine

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

Shirley: Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

Shirley: 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.

Shirley: 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: 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: I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.

Shirley: Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shirley: A person who knows how to laugh at him or herself will never cease to be amused.

Shirley: I love to win Oscar's. Love it. The only part about it I don't like is the red carpet and getting a dress and walking around in high heels and holding in my stomach. I hate that.

Shirley: I can't define longevity. I don't know what it means.

Shirley: Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.

Shirley: I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice a** and shake it.

Shirley: It is useless to hold a man to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Shirley: I think in my 40s, right around the time of The Turning Point in 1977, that I began to address myself more to the future. See, I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I never had the problems the other actresses my age had. I was never a great beauty. I was never a sex symbol. I did, however, have great legs, because I was a dancer. But I didn't have that baggage. I wasn't interested in my stature as a star. Ever. I was just interested in good parts.