Quotes from Maureen O'Hara

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

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

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?

I have never lost my faith in God.

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

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

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

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.

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.

In the beginning it was all black and white.

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

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

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

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

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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