To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!

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 point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade, to be the sharpest of observers.

Many people will never read a Bible, but they will read you.

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special.

This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.