Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

Things are done according to money these days.

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

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

When a child comes in, I believe that it’s a ‘multipersonhood,’ and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

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.

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.

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.

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.