Maureen O'Hara

“I saw myself as Joan of Arc.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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 studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.”

“I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.”

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

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

“How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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