FastSaying

Yeah, I turned down 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.' Can you believe it? With 'Alice,' I thought, 'Martin Scorsese. I wonder if he knows what he's doing?' Oh, man, what a mistake! Ellen Burstyn won an Oscar for that role.

Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine

AliceAnymoreBelieveBreakfastLiveTurnedYeah

Related Quotes

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.
— Shirley MacLaine
AnymoreDresserLeave
When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
— Shirley MacLaine
BabyBelieveCenter
I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.
— Shirley MacLaine
AccomplishAnotherAny
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
— Lewis Carroll
alice-in-wonderlandbreakfastcarroll
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
— Shirley MacLaine
LoveAnythingDrunk