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Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
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I don't feel competitive.
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I've gotten crankier in my old age.
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I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.
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I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
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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.
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Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.
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Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.
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You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.
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I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.
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The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.
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Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
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I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.
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I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.
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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.
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We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.
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For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can be turned inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy's belly.
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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.
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I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
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Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
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I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!
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