I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

She later said "I thought I would win for The Apartment but then Elizabeth Taylor had a tracheotomy. She's very very hard. Personal life

MacLaine was married to businessman Steve Parker until their divorce in 1982.

She won the 1976 Emmy Award for Outstanding Special – Comedy-Variety or Music for Gypsy in My Soul. She has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy twice for her roles in The Apartment and Irma la Douce and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama twice for Terms of Endearment and Madame Sousatzka.