John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

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 roll me out flat

Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for.

He came to me through faith in him.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

We think of God as too much like what we are. Learn to acknowledge the full majesty of your incomparable God and Savior.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

I have control of my own style.

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.