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.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEWhy do people have to love people anyway?
SHIRLEY MACLAINESome people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEWhen times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEI 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.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEMelt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEOf course, we’re all a mass of contradictions.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEPrayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEHe [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it’s a little lower.
SHIRLEY MACLAINESometimes 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.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEBeing old is such a treat!
SHIRLEY MACLAINEA person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
SHIRLEY MACLAINETechnology has outstripped our knowledge of self.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEThere are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can’t.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEI want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
SHIRLEY MACLAINEWe humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE