Shirley MacLaine Quotes

I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.

When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.

It's sort of a meat market, the whole awards thing, and I don't think you can predict it anymore - who's going to like what you've done, if it's worthy or not. And hopefully, that's not why you make a film, because if you're distracted by that, or only striving for that, you don't do it justice.

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one.

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

I've had fans and friends in the business say, 'Oh man, you've made it.' I still don't feel like I've made it. I still feel like I'm as good as my last show, as good as my last single.

I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.

I really believe quality over quantity and 'Mardaani' was really well-received. It got me critical acclaim and box-office success, both.

When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.

It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no idea what I'll do.

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

Every year in Edinburgh, I end up waiting behind the curtain about to go on stage, and I have a moment of thinking, 'No one's told me what to do with this show. I've done exactly what I wanted. This is the biggest arts festival in the world, and all these people have shown up. Aren't I lucky?' It really is amazing.

No, I'm never confident with what I do, particularly playing and singing!

I want the audience to watch my films, and that is what I value more than any awards.

Awards and nominations really help sell films.

The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.

I know one thing; I'll never win an Academy Award.

I'm not convinced I have fans.