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Usually I'm right, by the way - so never mind all the other.

Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
Character Actor
Dancer
Film Actor
Film Actress
Film Director
Film Producer
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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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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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I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
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I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.
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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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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 think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.
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I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
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When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
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I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.
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I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
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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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I don't do like diva trips and stuff.
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Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.
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