I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

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 knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

The only people that can ruin a relationship or make that relationship work are the two people in it.

Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

He's now letting Chang play his own game - and he does that better than anyone.

Every project starts with a story.

Even through the unseen, I know that God watches, From one King's dream, he was able to Barack us.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

The Constitution wanted artists to have control over their works because they knew it would create incentive to create more works. That is clearly still the goal.

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.