Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLean Beaty, known professionally as Shirley MacLaine, is an American film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author. MacLaine has won an Academy Award, five Golden Globe Awards, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an Emmy Award and two BAFTA Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth24 April 1934
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful careers looks
My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.
dance pain light
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.
song intuition vibrations
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.
friendship travel fear
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
arrogant spirituality
One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.
lonely morning new-york
New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.
who-i-am important thirds
I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.
pain love-is understanding
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
men thinking order
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.
beautiful people meals
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
adults world problem
Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it, you're better prepared for being an adult in the world.
funny cute smile
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
dance nice feminism
I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
limbs
For me, the safest place is out on a limb.