Top 100 O'hara Quotes
#1. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.
John O'Hara
#2. Life perpetuated in parti-colored loves
and beautiful lies all in different languages.
Frank O'Hara
#4. I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
Glenn Close
#5. Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.
Kelli O'Hara
#6. 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
Maureen O'Hara
#7. Dear:
I am dying
without you, and I won't be dying long. But don't come.
Best always,
Frank
Frank O'Hara
#9. I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing room! [laughs] It's a great place to build something with freedom.
Kelli O'Hara
#10. When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.
Maureen O'Hara
#11. I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.
Kelli O'Hara
#12. When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.
Kelli O'Hara
#13. I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.
Carolina Herrera
#14. Scarlett O'Hara's father, Thomas, is an Irish immigrant who names his plantation Tara, after the home of the High Kings in Ireland. In an appealing nod to the "luck of the Irish," we read that Thomas O'Hara won his lands in a card game!
Rashers Tierney
#15. 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
#16. With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.
Kelli O'Hara
#17. Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
Catherine O'Hara
#18. If you don't appear
at all one day they think you're lazy
or dead.
Frank O'Hara
#19. The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
Maureen O'Hara
#20. Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight
Pat Conroy
#21. ... and I'll be happy here and happy there, full
of tea and tears
Frank O'Hara
#22. To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.
Steve Erickson
#24. I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'
Frank O'Hara
#25. It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.
Frank O'Hara
#26. When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.
Kelli O'Hara
#27. Down the sidewalk
where laborers feed their dirty
glistening torsos sandwiches
and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
on. They protect them from falling
bricks, I guess.
Frank O'Hara
#28. She had always liked what Scarlett O'Hara said in Gone with the Wind: I'll think about it tomorrow. Not anymore.
Ken Follett
#29. If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.
Kelli O'Hara
#30. Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.
Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.
Mary O'Hara
#31. I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.
Kelli O'Hara
#32. There were occasionally
rifts in the cloud where the face
of a woman appeared, frowning.
Frank O'Hara
#33. But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?
John O'Hara
#34. How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?
Maureen O'Hara
#35. And one has eaten and one walks,
past the magazines with nudes
and the posters for bullfight and
the Manhattan Storage Warehouse,
which they'll soon tear down.
Frank O'Hara
#36. I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.
Catherine O'Hara
#37. You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?
Catherine O'Hara
#38. Bing: You're a heel ... a low down rotten heel ... anything that doesn't go your way, anything that you can't have you destroy.
John O'Hara
#39. Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
Maureen O'Hara
#40. Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible
Frank O'Hara
#41. Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.
Kelli O'Hara
#42. We each bring our own unique beauty to the world, and how blessed we are to have the freedom to find that beauty in each other.
Heather K. O'Hara
#43. I wouldn't mind spending a little more time and effort and money on good skin care. And I'm sure they'll come out with, as they are doing, with more and more treatments that are noninvasive and healthy ways to keep your face looking as good as it can.
Catherine O'Hara
#44. I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.
Paige O'Hara
#45. To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'
Catherine O'Hara
#46. After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.
Maureen O'Hara
#47. A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.
Kelli O'Hara
#48. O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors
Frank O'Hara
#50. I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.
Kelli O'Hara
#51. John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Maureen O'Hara
#52. To be cool,
decisive,
precise,
yes,
while the barn door hits you in the face
Frank O'Hara
#53. So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.
Maryanne O'Hara
#54. I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up
Frank O'Hara
#55. Those who lead us to our sacred selves walk not before us, but beside.
Heather K. O'Hara
#56. I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.
Kelli O'Hara
#57. They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
John O'Hara
#58. My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.
Frank O'Hara
#60. He picked her up. Picked her up and carried her, as if she were Scarlett O'Hara and he were Rhett Butler, if Rhett had been the kind of guy to go down on Scarlett in a doorway. Which, let's be honest, he probably was.
Ruthie Knox
#61. Fiddlesticks" is Scarlett O'Hara's way of saying "Fuck this shit.
Mary Norris
#62. I'll go on writing till the end of my days. I have been writing too long to stop.
Mary O'Hara
#63. Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
Maureen O'Hara
#64. I was trying to learn to write stories, and was reading O'Hara and Hemingway as a carpenter might look at an excellent house someone else has built.
Andre Dubus
#65. The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts ... Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind.
Margaret Mitchell
#66. My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.
Kelli O'Hara
#68. Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.
Kelli O'Hara
#69. People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them.
Catherine O'Hara
#70. Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.
Maureen O'Hara
#71. Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.
Frank O'Hara
#72. Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.
Norma Shearer
#73. There is a time when the soul closes its eyes and kneels before its own divinity; and a time when it rises and looks out in wonder at the beauty of the world.
Heather K. O'Hara
#74. I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.
Kelli O'Hara
#75. Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
Laura Osnes
#76. John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.
Maureen O'Hara
#77. When I am feeling
depressed and anxious
sullen
all you have to do is
take off your clothes
and all is wiped away
revealing life's
tenderness.
Frank O'Hara
#78. Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties.
Patricia O'Hara
#79. I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
Kelli O'Hara
#81. I have never been the fiddle-dee-dee, carefree Scarlett O'Hara his fantasies imagined. I'm more of the Civil War version - tired, hard, and determined.
Jennifer Harrison
#82. In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy's ironclad rule that, before going to any party, the O'Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any refreshments at the party.
Margaret Mitchell
#83. By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.
Kelli O'Hara
#84. Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.
John O'Hara
#85. When you do something that people watch and enjoy as children, that's great because it stays with you, throughout your life. The things you loved as a child stay with you, and so do the people who were in those things.
Catherine O'Hara
#86. ... and surely we shall not continue to be unhappy
we shall be happy
but we shall continue to be ourselves everything
continues to be possible
Frank O'Hara
#87. I wouldn't want to be faster
or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days!
Frank O'Hara
#88. There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.
Frank O'Hara
#89. Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara ... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.
Fred Willard
#90. I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
Maureen O'Hara
#91. the remnants of her Georgia drawl always sounded a bit sad. She made him think of an aging Scarlett O'Hara torn from Tara's halls but clinging to her pride and, with the help of a beauty parlor, her flaming hair.
Richard Laymon
#92. I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.
Kelli O'Hara
#93. I love you, Scarlett, because we are so much alike, renegades, both of us, dear, and selfish rascals. Neither of us cares a rap if the whole world goes to pot, so long as we are safe and comfortable.
Margaret Mitchell
#94. When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.
Maureen O'Hara
#95. I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea - in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.
Frank O'Hara
#96. All the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies: and refuse her authority.
Margaret Mitchell
#97. I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.
Karen Chance
#98. 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.
Maureen O'Hara
#99. It's really important that I have a personal life.
Kelli O'Hara
#100. A man was the cause of it.
An unarmed man with a weapon.
Frank O'Hara
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