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.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEBeing old is such a treat!
More Shirley MacLaine Quotes
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New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.
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I mean, I’m just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it’s a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.
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We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.
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Why do people have to love people anyway?
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I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
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Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.
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Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That’s why I love my animals. They live in the present.
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Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.
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Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.
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There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can’t.
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When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
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The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.
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I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
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If you’re comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that’s when you start getting into who is your real self.
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Of course, we’re all a mass of contradictions.
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