I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.

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.

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.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Universe doesn't even know that you exist, so relax!

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." -

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

I am an audiophile. It's almost like a virus. I'm completely crazy about the quality of sound. It's interesting and painful at the same time; you have to really spend a lot of money on the equipment.

I am never frightened when I tell the truth.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you!