I didn't let anyone push me into things I didn't want to do where my career was concerned. So why did I crumble when it came to men?

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.

You don't have to wait until something or someone is gone to appreciate the true value

When I was a child, I thought like a child.When I became adult, I seek a deeper understanding of life.

Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!

Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, "That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.

Italy has been made

I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.