I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

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.

She was like a fire-cracker standing too close to a match: all potential energy, still wrapped up so neatly. He wanted to watch her explode. Hell, he was the match. He wanted to make her explode.

In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss

Abandon the idea that you will forever be the victim of the things that have happened to you. Choose to be a victor.

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

A good man never dies.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump.

People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'