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

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

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

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

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

Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.