If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
Shirley MacLaineIf we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.
Shirley MacLaineThe best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
Shirley MacLaineHollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.
Shirley MacLaine