Shirley MacLaine Quotes

Some people might say I'm two different people, but I think it's more like seven or eight.

There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.

It's not a secret that I'm, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

I live many lives at once.

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

I think that all people are many people. I think all people have many, many, many different souls inside, and they just shift from one to the other.

In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.

I think boldness is not the only thing in my personality, but there is lot more.

I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism, and there's obviously nothing important in that particular statement, but it's really about the fact that people create you as a good actor.

Thats the worst thing, I don't really care if people say I'm a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he's ugly thats just like “oh.. really?

We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

What's enjoyable for me, as an actor, is to do as many different things as possible.

I admire actors for their infinite patience. That's why they need all those trailers and all their crowd of people who pamper them. But it is a drag to get up sometimes at 4:30 in the morning and get into makeup, and wait forever until they call you onto the set.

I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.

I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.

I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that's inside of you.