My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

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.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

If your doctor told you that you needed immediate surgery could you perform it yourself?

You learn to run by running.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.

Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!