Shirley MacLaine movie quotes

“It's past ten. My daughter is in pain. I don't understand why she has to have this pain. All she has to do is hold out until ten, and it's past ten! My daughter is in pain, can't you understand that? Give my daughter the shot!”

Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway

“The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.”
Shirley MacLaine

“I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself... and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”
Shirley MacLaine

“- Aurora Greenway: How is she?
- Dr. Maise: I tell people to hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
- Aurora Greenway: And they let you get away with that?”

Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway
Paul Menzel - Dr. Maise

“Life is short, but marriage is long, so drink up, and it will make it go a hell of a lot faster.”
Shirley MacLaine - Katharine Richelieu

“- Aurora Greenway: I just don't want to fight anymore.
- Emma Horton: What do you mean? When do we fight?
- Aurora Greenway: When do we fight? I always think of us as fighting!
- Emma Horton: That's because you're never satisfied with me.”
Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway
Debra Winger - Emma Horton

“I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very badmood 40 years!”
Shirley MacLaine - Ouiser Boudreaux

“I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.”
Shirley MacLaine

“I'm so drunk, I don't think I could lie down without holding on!”
Shirley MacLaine - Tipsy Girl

“- C.C. Baxter: It's a wonderful thing, dinner for two.
- Fran Kubelik: Do you usually eat alone?
- C.C. Baxter: Oh no. Sometimes I have dinner with Ed Sullivan. Sometimes Dinah Shore, or Perry Como. The other night I had dinner with Mae West. Of course she was much younger then.”
Jack Lemmon - C.C. Baxter
Shirley MacLaine - Fran Kubelik

“Why do people have to love people anyway?”
Shirley MacLaine - Fran Kubelik

“Just because I wear a uniform doesn't make me a girl scout.”
Shirley MacLaine - Fran Kubelik

“- C.C. Baxter: The mirror... it's broken.
- Fran Kubelik: Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel.”
Jack Lemmon - C.C. Baxter
Shirley MacLaine - Fran Kubelik

“When you're in love with a married man, you shouldn't wear mascara.”
Shirley MacLaine - Fran Kubelik

“- Princess Aouda: Have there been any women in his life?
- Passepartout: I assume he had a mother, but I am not certain.”

Shirley MacLaine - Princess Aouda
Cantinflas - Passepartout

“He looked exactly the same when he was alive, only he was vertical.”

Shirley MacLaine - Jennifer Rogers

“- Jennifer Rogers: I've never been to a home-made funeral before.
- Capt. Wiles: I have... it's my third. All in one day...”
Shirley MacLaine - Jennifer Rogers
Edmund Gwenn - Capt. Albert Wiles

“When I see the amount of money flung into that cauldron called Hollywood, I feel not one ounce of guilt about what I get.”
Shirley MacLaine

“Jack Lemmon, my darling Jack, is the epitome of what it means to be a nice person. He was always prepared, yet mischievously open for a good laugh. His genius was so riveting that I would often come in on my days off or stay late at night just to watch him cast his comic spell before the camera.”
Shirley MacLaine On Jack Lemmon

“Glenn Ford decided I should learn to smoke a cigar. I did and threw up. Then he put my cowboy hat under his horse to 'christen it'.”
Shirley MacLaine On Glenn Ford

“The difference between us is sex. I can take it or leave it. But my kid brother... well, now, he enjoys his reputation. Sex is the most important thing in his life. It's his hobby, you could say.”
Shirley MacLaine On Warren Beatty

“- Doris Mann: Are you less mad at me now?
- Suzanne Vale: I am always less mad at you, mom.”
Shirley MacLaine - Doris Mann
Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale

“- Drum Eatenton: Ouiser you look like hammered shit.
- Ouiser Boudreaux: Don't you talk to me like that!
- Drum Eatenton: Oh, I'm sorry you look like regular shit.”
Tom Skerritt - Drum Eatenton
Shirley MacLaine - Ouiser Boudreaux

“The most important deals in the movie industry are finalized on the sun-drenched turf of golf courses or around turquoise swimming pools, where the smell of barbecue sauce is borne on gentle breezes and wafts over the stereo system of houses that people seldom leave.”
Shirley MacLaine

“All it takes is heat and pressure to turn a rock into a diamond.”
Shirley MacLaine - Mary Kay