Quotes By Maureen O..Hara

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

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

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.

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.

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

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.

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

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

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

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.

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

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

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

I have never lost my faith in God.