Shirley MacLaine Quotes

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

I think my face and voice suit me better as I get older.

I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

I am old, but I feel very beautiful.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older; I am, in fact, at this very moment, gaining my looks.

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.

My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people's!

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.

Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. "Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you seem to lose some of it. I expect it must be the change in your expression." Startled, Tiffany flew to gaze anxiously into the ornate looking-glass which hung above the fireplace. "Do I?" she asked naively. "Really do I, Ancilla?" "Yes, decidedly," replied Miss Trent, perjuring her soul without the least hesitation.

So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Hair is about when you're younger. I am my hair.

What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?