I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

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.

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

Tenacity is what it takes to dare unrelentingly

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

God looks out for fools and babies.

Conservatives' views of liberals are just as distorted as ours are of conservatives.

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.