I began to rationalize marrying Will [William Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet.)

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.

The only way to escape the feeling of loneliness is to just be silent

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

a book is a box of words until you open it.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Before I began seeing a therapist, I lost a few iPhones due to chucking them across a room.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.