Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.

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.

The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.

Love is divine ink: miracles are God's signature.

Never lose the power to love.

It is not what you look at, but rather what you see that matters. Set your focus right.

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Finding out the truth doesn't always work out for the best!

I don’t think teens make mistakes when they fall in love. You experience what you experience and you take away what you can from it; it is very human.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

I'm up here in this womb, I'm looking all around. We'll, I'm looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns.