I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.
From Shirley MacLaine
I live in too many cities.
I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.
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.
People think I'm nuts.
My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.
You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.
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.
I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.
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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