Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

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.

Forget about weird Boy and move on

It is a sad thing to me that in this world a persons value is measured by the size of their wallet.

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

I laughed my way through The Stepford Wives.

The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished work.

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

Love, joy and peace for the world, that’s what I want...peace for the world and love.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.