After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

Faith can move Mountains but DETERMINATION can help you build new ones.

Fantasy is a wise lie.

A pure crystal stream sprang laughing in the midst of desolation......

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

Your destiny is just waiting for you to show up

We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.