Quotes By Maureen O..Hara

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

In the beginning it was all black and white.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

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

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.