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.

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.

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.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Don't sit on the fence

O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

I enjoy music that is commercial.

Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.

A girl offered me E at the club. 'Have you ever done E?' 'I watch E.'

In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

When I was doing Bean more than I’ve done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.