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

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

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

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.

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

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