Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

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.

Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.

In the center of your being there is a fountain of music and that is your love.

I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.

People focus on role models

I'm a positive person. I just want to chill, have fun and be productive. And just hope that through Hip-Hop and different vessels and vehicles we can change people's attitudes.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

People are who they are by the way they react to things.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small

I am a part and parcel of God.