Top 64 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.

Maureen O'Hara

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#4. Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.

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

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

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

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

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.

Maureen O'Sullivan

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#12. Will Rogers wasn't helpful to me at all. He was just concerned with his way of doing things. He didn't like me much because I used to wear slacks to the studio, and that was not done much in those days, so I guess he thought I was rather fast.

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

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

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#15. Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.

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

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

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

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#19. Hollywood was a fantasy world in more ways than one

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

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

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

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#25. 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

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#26. In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

Denise Mina

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

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#28. The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry about as Google ogles our houses, our oceans, our foibles, our movements and our tastes.

Maureen Dowd

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

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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

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

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#34. 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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#35. Maureen O'Sullivan did 'Hannah and Her Sisters' with Mia Farrow, her daughter, but O'Sullivan had a very minor role.

Diane Ladd

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

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

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

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#40. 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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#41. 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.

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#42. 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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#43. How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#60. I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

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

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

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#64. It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.

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