Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.

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.

Maybe next time, don't bite the girl you fancy.

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

All you have to do is take a man at face value. Don't go into it thinking you can change them. Men aren't fixer-uppers, not like a house or a car. You buy them as is.

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now!

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

Whats fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.