Maureen O'hara Quotes
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To be part of the creation, I must act humbly. I'll take that over a goddess any day!
— Maureen O'Hara
I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.
— Maureen O'Hara
When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.
— Maureen O'Hara
After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.
— Maureen O'Hara
The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.
— Maureen O'Hara
When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.
— Maureen O'Hara
John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.
— Maureen O'Hara
When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.
— Maureen O'Hara
It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.
— Maureen O'Sullivan
There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.
— Maureen O'Hara
In the beginning it was all black and white.
— Maureen O'Hara
God has a most wicked sense of humor.
— Maureen O'Hara
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
— Maureen O'Hara
John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.
— Maureen O'Hara
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.
— Maureen O'Hara
Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.
— Maureen O'Hara
I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
— Maureen O'Hara
Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.
— Maureen O'Sullivan
How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?
— Maureen O'Hara
I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.
— Maureen O'Hara
I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.
— Maureen O'Hara
I saw myself as Joan of Arc.
— Maureen O'Hara
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.
— Maureen O'Hara
I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.
— Maureen O'Hara
Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
— Maureen O'Hara
Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.
— Maureen O'Hara
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
— Maureen O'Hara
Jackson's father said she was built like Marilyn Monroe and had the temperament of Maureen O'Hara. The man was a prophet for sure.
— Carolyn Brown
How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?
— Maureen O'Hara
I don't think I ever got parts that interested me. Well, I did occasionally, but more often than not, they did not interest me.
— Maureen O'Sullivan
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
— Maureen O'Hara
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?
— Maureen O'Hara
Hollywood was a fantasy world in more ways than one
— Maureen O'Sullivan
Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role.
— Diane Ladd
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
— Maureen O'Hara
The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
— Maureen O'Hara
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
— Maureen O'Hara
Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
— Maureen O'Hara
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
— Maureen O'Hara
I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
— Maureen O'Hara
Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.
— Maureen O'Hara
Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
— Maureen O'Hara
My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
— Maureen O'Hara
I have never lost my faith in God.
— Maureen O'Hara
The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.
— Maureen O'Hara
Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
— Maureen O'Hara
Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.
— Maureen O'Hara
I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.
— Maureen O'Hara
I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.
— Maureen O'Hara