Shirley MacLaine Quotes

We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.

Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I can fall no further,’ and it is almost a pleasure to wallow in the darkness. The trouble is, it’s not true. There is no end to the evil in ourselves, just as there is no end to the good. It’s a matter of choice. We struggle to climb, or we struggle to fall. The thing is to discover which way we’re going.

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

God defend me from myself.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

I've made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.

My fire is my gift and my curse. I harness it 95% of the time, but the 5% I don't, it works against me.

The biggest challenge is the fight you have on your own.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?