Shirley MacLaine Quotes

I'm such a diva on set.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

I don't do divas. I don't do entourages. I don't do the Hollywood crap.

What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

The largest group of prima donnas ever assembled in one place

I was always very much a diva.

I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever f***ing dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears.

It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

Doing my first movie, I realized I could get into real bad habits. If you're the star, all you have to do is show up, and 20 people say, 'Do you want anything? What is it? Let me get it for you.' Believe me, you get spoiled very quickly. I saw some of my contemporaries allow themselves to have that fame, thinking they could handle it. It messed them up.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

I wasn't a child star, so hopefully I can keep my head on straight.

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

Mariah Carey is kinda scary.

Everybody worships me, it's nauseating.

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

William H. Macy has said, and I don't think I can quote him verbatim, but he's said many times before to not buy into the hype, the Hollywood appeal. To find yourself as a person, as a family man, to find your own happiness, and not to allow your ego to get in the way of your work.