Shirley MacLaine Quotes

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Figure out who you are.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate. I've always been very aware of that, more conscious of who I am, how I fit in the thing as opposed to trying to emulate someone else. Though, sometimes I try to emulate De Niro all the time, who is someone I could never be.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

My personality doesn't interest me.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

One of my problems is to find the self.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.