You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.
Shirley MacLaineI do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.
Shirley MacLaineThe more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaineI was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
Shirley MacLaine