I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
Shirley MacLaine
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
Sex is hardly ever just about sex.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.
I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.
The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.
I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.
You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.
I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.
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.
Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.
I make my mistakes in public.
Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.
I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!
I've gotten crankier in my old age.
I'm not one for wardrobe.
Movie makers now choose profit over vision.
Crystals amplify the consciousness.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Being old is such a treat!
Things are done according to money these days.
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.
My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.
Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
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.
We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.
When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.
Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.
Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.
I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.
Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.
I don't do like diva trips and stuff.
Well, success does not mean doing well.
You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.
Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.
I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.
The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.
