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People think I'm nuts.

~Shirley Maclaine

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My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

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You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

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I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

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Well, success does not mean doing well.

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I don't like to socialise much.

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I can't give up my own identity.

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Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

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The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

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I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: April 24th, 1934

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