Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Quote by Shirley Maclaine
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Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
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Shirley Maclaine Quotes
- I never would have given up my work to stay home.
- I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
- I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.
- Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
- When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
- 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.
- We need proof in our society.
- The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.
- I've gotten crankier in my old age.
- It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Best Quotes
- The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
- Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
- It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
- When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
- I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
- Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.
- Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.