Quotes from Shirley MacLaine movies and TV shows

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.

Fran Kubelik: When you're in love with a married man, you shouldn't wear mascara.

Fran Kubelik: He's a taker.
C.C. Baxter: A what?
Fran Kubelik: Some people take, some people get took. And they know they're getting took and there's nothing they can do about it.

Fran Kubelik: Why do people have to love people anyway?

Fran Kubelik: I was jinxed from the word go. The first time I was ever kissed was in a cemetery.

Fran Kubelik: I'd like to spell it out for you... Only I can't spell!

Princess Aouda: Mr. Fogg, why must you be so... so British?

Irma La Douce: Who wants to be a stray dog? You got to belong to someone, even if he kicks you once in a while.

Irma La Douce: This is not just a job, it's a profession.

Irma La Douce: You oughta be ashamed of yourself, scaring a poor little dog like that.
Nestor Patou: They oughta take that dog away from you, you're not a fit mother.

Irma La Douce: A painter once lived here. Poor guy, he was starving. Tried everything, even cut his ear off.
Nestor Patou: Van Gogh?
Irma La Douce: No, I think his name was Schwartz.

Grace Winterbourne: How did I ever raise such a snob?
Bill Winterbourne: It's a mystery Mother... let's ask the servants.

Connie: Oh, Mother Winterbourne. Come in.
Grace Winterbourne: Mother Winterbourne! That's what I called my mother-in-law because she seemed so cold and distant.
Connie: Oh. What did you end up calling her?
Grace Winterbourne: Mother Winterbourne. She was cold and distant.

Doris Mann: Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it "ass"? Never let 'em see your ass.

Aurora Greenway: Not that it's any of your business... Oh, let's just leave it at that.

Aurora Greenway: I'm inviting you to come over and look at my Renoir.
Garrett Breedlove: You're inviting me to bed.
Aurora Greenway: It happens to be in my bedroom.
Garrett Breedlove: Is the Renoir under the covers?
Aurora Greenway: Don't cackle, Garrett. Do you want to see it?

Aurora Greenway: Grown women are prepared for life's little emergencies.

Aurora Greenway: He can't even do the simple things, like fail locally.

Aurora Greenway: You are not special enough to overcome a bad marriage.

Garrett Breedlove: You're just going to have to trust me about this one thing. You need a lot of drinks.
Aurora Greenway: To break the ice?
Garrett Breedlove: To kill the bug that you have up your ass.