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.
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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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#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.
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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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#14. Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
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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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#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
#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.
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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
#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
#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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#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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#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.
Maureen O'Sullivan
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