Quotes By Maureen O..Hara

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

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

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

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

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.

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

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

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

I have never lost my faith in God.

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?

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

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

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