You can't take a crash course in serenity. Shirley MacLaine More Quotes by Shirley MacLaine More Quotes From Shirley MacLaine Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it. Shirley MacLaine meditationrememberpeople My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape. Shirley MacLaine careersbeautifullooks You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth. Shirley MacLaine dancingdancelying Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance. Shirley MacLaine paindancelight Listen to sounds beyond silence. Shirley MacLaine silencesound Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility. Shirley MacLaine meditationprayerlistening no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience. Shirley MacLaine impulsehollywoodwould-be Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do. Shirley MacLaine dancingdanceart Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within. Shirley MacLaine journey The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. Shirley MacLaine fearfriendshiptravel God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this. Shirley MacLaine god-blessoscarsthinking New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way. Shirley MacLaine lonelynew-yorkmorning An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull. Shirley MacLaine actorsdullpeople Crystals amplify the consciousness. Shirley MacLaine amplifycrystalsconsciousness I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now. Shirley MacLaine menorderthinking It's real important to enjoy your turn. Shirley MacLaine enjoyimportantreal When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation. Shirley MacLaine walking-meditationhourswalks Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth. Shirley MacLaine redhollywoodpeople I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself. Shirley MacLaine traveledjourneytravel I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days. Shirley MacLaine eightrainrunning
