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 MACLAINEThe 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.
More Shirley MacLaine Quotes
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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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Women love working together. That’s my experience anyway.
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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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Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.
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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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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
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Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.
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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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Of course, we’re all a mass of contradictions.
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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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Being old is such a treat!
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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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Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.
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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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I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
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