Legendary Actress Shirley MacLaine: ‘Life Is Just One Big Performance’ | TODAY

[@CBbehereNOW]

"I don't believe in death", SM. That sums up this amazing woman. ❤️

[@JR-zm2yu]

First Law of Physics - you can not destroy energy! 🙏

[@Brian-vk1hm]

@@JR-zm2yu Yeah because it gets transformed into dirt.

[@JR-zm2yu]

@@Brian-vk1hm I was referring to energy🙏

[@Karen-e1f]

❤ Shirley

[@chrisbean]

Beautiful personality!! Funny thing is that Shirley Temple, after whom MacLaine was named, was only 6 years older and was born on the 23rd of April, and MacLaine on the 24th of April.

[@marinakaye8284]

With all her clarity and insight, she overlooked applying these principles to herself.

[@MJLeger-yj1ww]

So true, but that is typical of egoists!

[@evereden2642]

Yes!!! Horrible person.

[@myocdtv7935]

I Love Shirley!

[@martinishot]

The title of this really does say it all. it gives you insight into why she was so narcissistic and so easily able to literally ignore the existence of her daughter.

[@chrisbean]

💔

[@stephemmurphy2554]

God bless her good spirit. 👍

[@WheepingWillow2]

Ive always liked her work. Some people just shouldnt have children though, if they cant love them. :(

[@billyshears.8365]

She was very pretty when she was Miss Kubelik.

[@PatriCoop]

Her Oscar speech remains one of my faves. I love how much she cherishes life. Truly an example!

[@warmswarm]

@Patridepastors - Didn't cherish her daughter much did she. "Truly an example"?? Left her daughter ON HER OWN at Christmas 'cos she was away enjoying herself. An example of what?

[@jayd8547]

Absolute legend! I think half the problem with today’s youth is they haven’t sat down with grandma and watched Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias… the lessons… the message in films like those, they stay with you for life.

[@yolienyc]

She’s so deep she should write a book I would love to read alot of her thoughts.

[@thomaskemer8109]

Impatient boys sometimes miss dessert!

[@barbaradiggle4096]

She has already wrote several books

[@yolienyc]

@@barbaradiggle4096 ok thank you.. I’ll look into it.

[@frenchpizza9725]

It's All True. Life. Over and over again. True

[@heathergittens3223]

I met Shirley MacLaine at Borders bookstore at the old WTC(pre-9/11) where I worked. It was during my lunch hour. It was a book signing. She looked amazing.

[@AhJodie]

The line.... ".... oh, I wouldn't say that, but I always keep out of the sun." hahahahahaha. I do love Shirley's movies and opinions, she is fun!

[@tdmj2812]

I feel like Shirley has been “lost” her whole life.

[@kathyashby6019]

Au contraire. Just the opposite! She has always known where she was...

[@warrenmoore4743]

Pathological people see life as a performance and think it's spiritual. She was a neglectful human being who only looked out for herself and "acted" for others. Acting is for the stage and film, not real life. However, she doesn't know what real life is all about. Her spirituality is all delusions and smoke and mirrors.

[@sct3339]

Warren Moore blind closed minded ignorant sheep make posts like you do😂😂😂😂 congratulation sheep!!

[@kathyashby6019]

How would you know?

[@cindywestlake6278]

Great actress. Rotten mother

[@IRISHguitarist777]

Just finished watching Hitchcocks the trouble with Harry,she was absolutely stunning.

[@-3lory]

Just wonderful thank you to all involved

[@taniafilomena595]

A wonderful actrice and lady ❤️❤️❤️🙂🙂🙂

[@holaramirez]

A Museum empty of love from her family.

[@TS-rd7oy]

Not everyone yearns for a family.

[@A_Muzik]

@@TS-rd7oy If one does not yearn for family, then one should not have children.

[@JosephDeLosSantos-t3m]

@@A_Muzik true, so stupid people are having children because society pressures them, not because they want to cherish and give love to their offspring.

[@JosephDeLosSantos-t3m]

@@A_Muzik and because it's a "milestone" and there's something to post about everyday lmfao

[@derekstynes9631]

Hey Guys over here on the Brit side of the Pond We call People Like Shirley ' National Treasures ' and She is One of Your Best .

[@hj52059]

she was my favorite actress, until I find out what a horrible mother she is been.

[@thezmanchar]

Try meeting her in person... I told her I loved this particular movie she was in, and she told me to go rent it.

[@angelinanice5425]

True! What a shame! 😡

[@carriedye7258]

She failed at being a mother and her grandchildren don’t know her. She claims not be a diva but acts like diva.

[@MrDerek-gn2rd]

You losers should stop crying! Do you think she gives a poop?

[@bettinabettina7155]

Why? What does her personal life have to do with her acting talent.?She's still a great actress. She have to be a helicopter Mom.?

[@markexler1347]

SHE ROCKS 💃

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

Shirley Maclaine has to be the wittiest woman in Hollywood

[@TheSakebomb1]

Yes but she abandoned her daughter when she was a child.

[@mattheww239]

Megan Kenworthy Judging such personal matters that you have no involvement in seems unwise to me.

[@rakesfunnyfarm]

@@mattheww239 Her daughter had no parents to take care of her.

[@stevearkie5722]

Shirley would abandon her dog .

[@fluffybunny7840]

She was a fabulous entertainer and nobody can take that away, her daughter paid the price for her mothers career in that she neglected her. It makes me wonder what kind of upbringing Shirley had!

[@elizabethwhite2151]

I believe the child also had a father who, as I understand biology, was equally responsible for her care, nurturing, and upbringing.

[@kwolfe9437]

If you read her daughters book, you will learn that she was a horrible & neglectful mother. She is a pathetic woman.

[@Jen-rw7yh]

Not to mention her daughter worked as maid to put her self to school while her mommy is more than capable of helping.

[@Sharon-yt7je]

Shes such a bright light in a troubled world. People like her are few and far between and such an insperation to us all. God bless you Shirley!

[@kaivalyanathan9331]

her daughter doesn't agree with you.lol.

[@A_Muzik]

Bright light my foot

[@Rogel957]

@@kaivalyanathan9331 and I am not agree too...I identify with Sachi

[@ovh992]

1 of the worst mothers ever. Notice no pictures of the daughter she neglected.

[@ediebluntzer5185]

so no mention of the worst father's ever? daughter was screwed on both sides, and btw, as a grandmomma, where were her grandparents? or her famous uncle Warren? so please don't just blame the mother blame the whole lot of them.

[@AlaskanAndie]

We are all on a journey of seeking and learning... And Noone starts out knowing everything! It is a wise thing to see everyone as a seeker of truth! It is wise to see your own self in others and know that we are all on the same pathway and not everyone is at the same place as you are and you are not at the same place others ahead of you are! Imagine us all walking the same roadway and you have many cars up ahead and many behind you.... It is our duty to share all information so that the ones behind you will ascend to a higher consciousness... Like others ahead of you did for you!!!

[@ovh992]

@andrea did you get that off a coffee cup? Shirley told her daughter tgat her father lived in a ufo circumventing the earth. U sound as crazy as Shirley.

[@sshowgirl933]

@@ediebluntzer5185you are so right

[@Rogel957]

@@ediebluntzer5185 Yes, of course, but a Mother is a Mother... Is the first and most responsible for her daugheter, we are mmamals, we need thebparebting.. And specially the one who gave us birth.. Maybe Shirley is a super good actresd but at the end of the day you will dye and go to the subtle levrls and you wont carey with you your performance, your faking acting... You will be nude with yourself and the imoorybwt thing will be If you were really a good human being or not... No matter If you were a "good" actresd or a "good " soldier...it that didnt reibforeced you in a positive way as a human, as a spirit then is a complete waste of life... Just you will have more lifes ahead of you to really evolve what you came and come here constatbley to evolve... Not to perform Mthatbis a way of avoiding that evolving... Life is not a perfomrning... Not y at way at least... Its very esa to confuse.... And Shirley was la ways confused, and she is not much better now....me guess...

[@lenwelch2195]

Life is a performance for her, she’ll act out whatever she needs at the moment according to her whim to do so you can’t put anyone else on same level . She was a mom to Sachs when it suited her. She was married when it suited her, when it didn’t she slept around ( she says her marriage was an open one. Sochi says she floated in and out of her life.

[@TheMabes69]

Most people call it immaturity but...hey.

[@marilynwagers786]

She's a nut and she's always talking crap and she was trying to make Dean Martin's marriage up so she's b******* and you people are full of s*** for liking her

[@marilynwagers786]

I meant she was always trying to break Dean Martin's marriage up

[@teresalehtonen8499]

yes for men this is all perfectly fine and normal. double standards much...

[@jolantaswiderska7061]

Shirley Mclain - a Master in accting and a great, great very much down to earh person. Love you Shirley ... stay strong, healthy and happy. You are my inspiration xxx ❤

[@thezmanchar]

She is the biggest Diva in the world, but really she should be called by the B word instead.

[@stevearkie5722]

Her and Clint Eastwood great movie .

[@salas7146]

she's amazing actress l remember seeing her in two mules for sister Sarah

[@missnyssah8048]

Fav💙💜💙

[@DippyHippie]

I just love her! I wish I had her guts!😂

[@TheSerpent21]

She is a LEGEND. I like how laid back she is, all those awards and yet so humble still, I admire that in a famous actress such as her.

[@lizajane1878]

Did your enlightenment forget to remind you to be a mother?

[@jackanthony976]

Her daughter already wrote the Mommie Dearest book.

[@RT-vw6yw]

Would you have the same reaction if she was a man and a father?

[@smmargret6300]

She came to my town few years back and was a real Diva the way she acted. The hotel staff apparently were not very impressed.!!

[@adrianlee3497]

When you unquestionably know that you are a creation of a Loving God you carry yourself in a certain way Maya Angelou was the same way Love *is* :)

[@victoriaadams2171]

Love Shirley. 😊

[@vickilynn5233]

I love you Shirley! You are ageless and timeless and full of life. XOXOXOXO

[@AlaskanAndie]

Shirley is such a phenomenal woman!!! All she's done & accomplished, everywhere she's been, all she has sought to learn--especially about herself & the spiritual conscious universe we're all a part of!!! SHE'S GOT MY UNDYING RESPECT AND ADMIRATION!!!

[@brigittebeltran6701]

Andrea Gaye Scott Westfall You have NO IDEA!!! She's a demon in person....mean, mean lady!!!! And no spirituality at all. Her books written by ghost writers!

[@BrookeSun.77]

Shes a horrible person. Did u understand what she did to her daughter whom she doesnt love. She isnt anything great at all. She screwed up with her kid. What up.

[@BethyKable]

She seems like a very selfish person and people consumed with themselves make bad mothers. Acting is a way to fake your way through life and staying disconnected from others.

[@texan903]

Her daughter describes in great detail the type of person and mother Shirley has been.

[@GeeBee909]

Sorry, but the daughter is wrong to "air" her family issues to the public. Clearly, in doing so she is attempting to HURT her mother, by airing them. This is not right. Everyone has family issues at times, and they are just that FAMILY issues that are no one else's business. If she has a problem with her mother, TALK to your mother. No reason to attempt to gain public sympathy (by getting people on "your side") by airing family dirty laundry. Settle it WITHIN the family, NOT in public.

[@mylindacasbarro777]

Shirley MacLaine introduces herself as a spiritual person who lives her life her way. She has a great sense of getting to know others and what is more interesting she is an excellent performer of certain styles of dance. I am looking forward to The Last Word Ms. MacLaine portrays Harriet Lawler

[@BettyRicker]

She grew up in Arlington, Va. area and also is a cousin. My sister went to school with her at W&L in Arlington, Virginia. and my other sister went to school with Warren Beatty, also my cousin.

[@adrianlee3497]

Love is. Namaste Shirley 🙏🙏

[@zoperxplex]

She thought her husband, Steve Parker, was floating in outer space on a secret mission.

[@travelseatsyellowlab]

When you listen Shirley speak, she seems intelligent but I'm sure her daughter couldn't be fabricating.

[@MrCharliefarlie123]

I wont comment on her being a mother. I love her as an actress dancer singer author and spiritulist .Shes one on her own 💙

[@g.o.skywalker9970]

"It's a painful moment for me as a mother and as someone who values the truth. I'm shocked and heartbroken that my daughter would make statements about me that are virtually all fiction. I've praised her lovingly and truthfully in my own autobiographies. I'm sorry to see such a dishonest, opportunistic effort from my daughter for whom I've only ever wanted the best."

[@CJLOVE23]

🎻 I’m playing the world’s smallest violin for her

[@lenwelch2195]

I believe Shirley’s life was a stage performance. She lived for herself and thus is alone. Her own daughter was a prop in the world of Shirley.

[@inezkarkabe2454]

For her.. yes.

[@quantaVastitude2021]

Life is a big performance when u born into lifetime as an actress

[@sarahjackson6714]

Very surprised, that most comments make it seem like they knew the private life of Shirley. Wonder how many of you knows so much about abusive mothers, is it that most of you know because you were one? So let’s stop talking about Shirley and go look at yourself in the mirror... gossip is a sin. One day you will also be judged...

[@thelaurels13]

Ms MacLaine is a legend. 💯

[@jackanthony976]

SHE'S A LOONEY!!!

[@Dana-kb5mk]

Fabulous!! Love Shirley McLaine 😘❤️♾️🕉️👽🖖🥰☘️ Thank you for this special #Uploax☘️😘❤️♾️🕉️👽🖖🥰🔥♾️🕉️🔥

[@exbronco]

She was an excellent mother.

[@financeadminsectionchief6993]

and she abandoned her daughter and grandchildren.

[@g.o.skywalker9970]

"It's a painful moment for me as a mother and as someone who values the truth. I'm shocked and heartbroken that my daughter would make statements about me that are virtually all fiction. I've praised her lovingly and truthfully in my own autobiographies. I'm sorry to see such a dishonest, opportunistic effort from my daughter for whom I've only ever wanted the best."

[@rakesfunnyfarm]

@@g.o.skywalker9970 Her daughter had No Parents. SMH

[@g.o.skywalker9970]

@@rakesfunnyfarm She didn't have much time, but she wasn't bad, that's all.

[@rakesfunnyfarm]

@@g.o.skywalker9970 Then she should of had her self fix. SMH

[@g.o.skywalker9970]

@@rakesfunnyfarm No need to fix hard work to earn money. No job is perfect.

[@liverbird_55]

*She says she now believes that life is show business and we are all actors on a stage??? Realy! Then she needs to start acting like a mother and grandmother to whome she has never even met her grandchildren, she needs to stop living in the past and start to face facts that she brought a child into this world and then she just forgot about her instead of parading all her photos of unimportant celebs saying oh im friends of elizabeth taylor and we were realy close, who gives a crap in name dropping and what celeb you have pictures off when you have no photos of your own flesh and blood your child that you abandon and left high and dry, she seriously needs to check herself and get a grip of reality and beg her daughter for forgiveness as she wont be here much longer and will be forgotten and we only live on through our childrens memories and her daughter Sachi has vile memories of her mother so thats how her name will live on, so she put all her energy into something that cant return any rewards as in hollywood once your dead thats it over, done and dusted, such a terrible mother with no morals, very sad👎🏼*

[@BrookeSun.77]

No no morals at apl. Its discusting. No wonder we dont see shirly mccloan on the carpet. Because of what she did to her daughter. No thank u. I dont ever eant to know her. Nope. Im good. I dont want her attitude on me. Thank you. I agree with you completely. Yah she needs help. I say take her career away. Her duaghters another story.

[@jackanthony976]

Let's face it..her daughter is not all that interesting.

[@markexler1347]

JEALOUS ?

[@texan903]

@@jackanthony976 Shirley raised her daughter. It says a lot about Shirley.

[@janinefarris7565]

I really enjoyed your interview I just wished it had lasted longer and I got to see a little bit of one of my favorite Stars home and it was a pleasant exchange and the answers that she gave you I was not surprised and I'm sure you realize with she said she does not believe in death she was not saying she's not going to die she is just saying she was going to continue living but maybe in another body or in another Realm at least that is how I understood it

[@JR-zm2yu]

Out on a limb 🙏

[@cinnamongirl5410]

Are her family photos props?

[@stevearkie5722]

You guys Shirley was a bad lady always was ,she up in age now it’s over .

[@pamelamcneill5117]

I couldn't agree more with last posting.

[@fabianalopez3960]

en este momento estoy mirando x tv una peli q protagonizó excelente La última palabra

[@rakesfunnyfarm]

Shirley and her brother Warren are both lucky to live the life!!! Love them both!

[@spamwithrice]

Fell in love with her in The Apartment. She was so breathtaking in beauty and her acting.

[@DaisysmileAu]

Totally love Shirley. Her down to earth attitude is a breath of fresh air.

[@aidanalli6709]

Didn’t she turn to kiss her daughter when she won the Oscar?

[@Rogel957]

Maybe that was a part of her acting too. To give the good impresión on t v.. If Sachi says what she says it is for something, and it s not for the need of money, as she ha e not that problem, its really what and how she lived it.. So... Is she lying as her Mother says? ? I dont think so.. At least sone important part is true. .. Her Mother didnt stand for her, sdibt gave her much attention, she saw her form time to time.. That is not a Mother... Sorry... And no one and nothing can substitufe that emptiness... In that Shirley failed...this revelas her way of being and living. (well acted living..)

[@eyeonart6865]

My geisha is my all time favorite movie. She should of got academy award.

[@DippyHippie]

I’d give my life to tour her home! Lucky,Al…

[@monkeybearmax]

She may be a great actress but she abandoned her child! And still does to this day. Nothing that amazing about her.

[@travelseatsyellowlab]

Shirley claims that her daughter lied about everything written in the book.

[@jazzibel1515]

Would someone please tell me the name of the actress at 3:18 Thanks

[@lynne7741]

Amanda Seyfried

[@bentonxavier5094]

Amanda Seyfried yes

[@carolbenson6524]

Such an interesting person...read her book, "I'm Over All That".

[@donnasloane9031]

She projects so much love......I can't get enough of her.

[@RT-vw6yw]

You know, I wonder if Shirley was a man, and it had come out that he was a "bad" father, would the judgment be the same?

[@jazarmstrong6467]

I love you, Shirley MacLaine. You remind me of my Grandma, who was older (1922), but was also named after another dancer (Marilyn Miller, Ziegfeld Follies) and always danced, laughed and kept me hopeful.

[@bettinabettina7155]

Why do people judge others. Shirley born to act ..not everyone has to be a good mother.Terms of endearment. Such wonderful performance

[@TheMrssanderson]

Bettina bettina 💖

[@fjansen8601]

Bettina bettina if you are not responsible enough to avoid getting a child, once the child is there, you should take care of iT.

[@joseassuncao5598]

magnifico

[@Rayoscope]

Shirley MacLaine: "There are little people in my salt shaker."

[@Rayoscope]

@Patricia Palmer Liking your own comment is so pathetic.

[@ReneRamirez-d9h]

She is a REAL STAR, A REAL NATIONAL TREASURE, TRULY ICONIC AND LEGENDARY IN EVERY SENSE OF THE THOSE WORDS. A REAL MOVIE STAR OF A BYGONE ERA.

[@carolbenson6524]

Yes..I see that too...life is just one big performance!

[@Rogel957]

No, its not.... At least, not that way..

[@warmswarm]

Yes Shirley, "Life is just one big performance" and sometimes part of that "performance" is bringing children in to the world and taking care of them. You're not gonna get an Oscar for that are you.

[@jaengen]

She gets a Razzie for that one.

[@thor4164]

On the money

[@lolagonzalez6979]

Shirley is a fabulous actress...Everyone is not cut out to be a mother. It is the way life is. Sad part is she made her daughter struggle having all that money...The least she could have done was made sure she had someone to take care of her and see her often. sad

[@angelahall4402]

A legendary mean mother! The only job she should have taken seriously, being a mom! She is a malignant narcissist!

[@The_Octopus]

Shirley is so beautiful inside and out!

[@bojack40]

Jeff Adams she’s an amazing actress, but a very poor mother and a selfish person

[@lizajane1878]

You desire all the riches of this present world. NO enlightenment if true would drive such selfishness

[@williamphillips6049]

She's done it all. McClaine is a survivor. She has had the career she demanded of herself and others . . She has played numerous memorable characters: A geisha, Weezer from "Magnolias", a mother . . from "Terms" and one of the most terrific song & dance performers of our time. Unfortunately she sucked at the most important roles of her life and it's going to haunt her.

[@dianejohnson5216]

Except being a mother to her daughter

[@williamphillips6049]

@Diane Johnson Yeah . . Did you know she left her kid at some birthday party and didn't pick her up? Another time she "lectured" her about how she had a right to a career . . I think she was six years old.

[@cinbur4362]

Has she taken on the role of Mother or Grandmother yet?

[@pauljamieson333]

👍👍

[@victoriakennedy4811]

She is having her reward in full in this system of things now and how will it be after the resurrection

[@chrissy6446]

I love her mind. She could have done anything. So so smart.

[@beverlyjones4645]

It is so sad how judgemental people are when they are void of facts. Sad world in many ways

[@warmswarm]

BEVERLY Jones - It's so sad when you can easily find the facts in minutes, but you choose to ignore them just because it suits you. Sad world in so many ways.

[@debrafrakes6479]

she was nterviewed once and complained about somebdy walking up to her and going blah, blah, blah" and she didnt listen to a word. i wnder if that person saw that interview!

[@susyqusy45]

She has helped me with my spirituality.

[@Rogel957]

You have helped yourself.. Using her as a reference, but it s you and it is your good doing, congratulacions! It is you with your inner being. So.etines we project ideal qualities into others... But remember dear one that is all insife you, those beloved qiilities and spiritual y its yorus and in yourself..☺️ IT s better If oyu are your own reference... Or your Inner Self... ✨ You will be more free, love yourself much more, and avoid false and fakes... And holow peopke who are like not living it... Really... Listen to you Self, see your own inner beauty... Its in you... Its you 💚

[@Audridittlenumba2]

She said I saw my own mother repress herself because of having children and she would be damed if she was gonna do that. Well you should have thought of that before you had kids

[@courtneyawalsh]

Such an interesting human. 🛸

[@marktaha2701]

She just wasn't suited to being a parent.The same applies to other celebrities-Boone, Crawford,Crosby, Lewis, Mullard, Sellers,Stanwyck,Sullavan. For a millionairess to refuse to pay for her daughter to go to college ids indefensible!

[@carlingnugent]

good actress. bad mother.

[@BrookeSun.77]

Shes not even a good actress. She cant act a good person in a movie. Whats the point. All she wants is money. I wld laugh if she said she was a christian.

[@joanhebert73]

listen to her one daughter how Shirley was as a mother. tragic.