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

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

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

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

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

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

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?