Words matter. These are the best Maureen O’Hara Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.
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 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.
Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
God has a most wicked sense of humor.
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.
The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.
Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
I have never lost my faith in God.
I’m really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.
I dainty little lass I wasn’t. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.
I don’t remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don’t even remember my first kiss.
When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.
The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn’t get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.
As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.
The Parent Trap wouldn’t have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.
My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.
The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.
Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That’s showbiz.