When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

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.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Partners, ” she said, and fired two rounds into his head.

To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.

You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review.

There is no justice among men.

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.