MAUREEN O'HARA

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.

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

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

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

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

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

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

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

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

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

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

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

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

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.

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

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

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.