Top 53 Maureen O'Hara Quotes

#1. I began to rationalize marrying Will[iam Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet

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

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#3. Working with Ty Power was exciting. In those days, he was the biggest romantic swashbuckler in the world. Murderously handsome! But what I loved most about Ty Power was his wicked sense of humor.

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

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#5. I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

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

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

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

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

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#10. I have never lost my faith in God.

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

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

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

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#14. God has a most wicked sense of humor.

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

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

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#17. A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

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

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

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

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

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#22. 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?

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#23. 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.

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

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

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

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#27. Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.

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

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

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

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#31. It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

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

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#33. How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#40. In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow . Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.

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

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#42. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#47. I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

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

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

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#50. I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

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#51. In the beginning it was all black and white.

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

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

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