Shirley MacLaine

"I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves."

- Shirley MacLaine

"It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office."

- Shirley MacLaine

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it."

- Shirley MacLaine

"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."

- Shirley MacLaine

"I don’t need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves."

- Shirley MacLaine

"The moon is too close. I want to go further."

- Shirley MacLaine

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."

- Shirley MacLaine

"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."

- Shirley MacLaine