John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.

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.

God alone knows how to bring success and strengthen us in it

...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.

You can do a lot things in the ensuing four years waiting to vote. You can drum up support or opposition.

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.