Shirley MacLaine

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

People think I'm nuts.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.