#ma

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#hill #i #i think #like #man

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. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#couple #early #even #friends #get

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#dresser #i #leave #made #many

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#away #family #family members #i #inner

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#call #dream #i #maybe

Movie makers now choose profit over vision. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#makers #movie #now #over #profit

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#course #mass

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#bad #beautiful #elegant #glamour #like

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. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#director #get #good #insecure #job

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#diabetes #eat #get #know #many