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Shirley MacLaine

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About Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cups, and two Silver Bears. She has been honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute in 1995, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1998, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014.

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Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

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If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
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.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
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 exper…
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
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 exper…
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.