I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
Shirley MacLaineI could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.
Shirley MacLaineFilms and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.
Shirley MacLaine