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To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!

I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.

When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

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?

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

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'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

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

There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

I have never lost my faith in God.

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.

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

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.