Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

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.

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy.

Life is meant to be shared and fully lived.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.

Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

One thing that irritates me is when people kind of make assumptions.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.