Maureen O'Hara Quotes

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

Maureen O'Hara

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Help
  • Want
  • Everyone

• I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Together
  • Magic
  • London

• The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Path
  • Poverty

• I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Process
  • First
  • Learned

• 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.

  

  J Mascis
  • Bones
  • Some
  • Kick

• But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Mean
  • President
  • Wanted

• I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Money
  • Disrespect
  • Throw

• When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Eye
  • Green

• No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • May
  • Silence
  • Mountain

• Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Men
  • Real
  • Freedom

• …and if you are common, you can dress up as a woman, show you behind or write poems: there’s nothing offensive about a naked behind if it’s everybody’s; each person will be mirrored in it.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Up

• Well, when you're playing a role, you have to think, 'What is ultimately motivating the character?'

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Character

• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Sea

• I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Trying
  • Movie

• No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'

  

  Bill Condon
  • Done
  • Job

• And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Up
  • Proud
  • Air

• Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.

  

  Michael Gerber
  • People
  • Business
  • Constant

• Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his baseball career? The answer is yes.

  

  Al Stump
  • Career
  • Baseball
  • Psychotic

• Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Father

• Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • Study
  • Facts
  • Historian

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

  

  Maureen O'Hara