Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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?

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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.

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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

Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara

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