I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

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.

If there was one advantage of the numerous lifetimes he’d been forced to endure, it was undoubtedly knowledge.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Always remember that somebody is praying for the opportunity that you have.

A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

A dreaming vortex is a place where it's easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from one dream into another, from one world into another, to change, in other words.

Wind power is a green mirage of the worst kind.

My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

For me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.