Maureen O'Hara Quotes

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

Maureen O'Hara

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• My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Going
  • Big
  • Most

• It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Nice
  • Achievement
  • Year

• I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Think
  • Intelligent
  • I Think

• And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Wisdom

• Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Person
  • Battle

• We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Power
  • Better
  • Drawing

• I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Myself
  • Yourself
  • Shine

• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Part
  • Turn

• I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Country
  • My Life

• As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Art
  • Imitation

• I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Kitchen

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Progress

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Want
  • Know
  • Religion

• Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.

  

  Mary Badham

• I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People
  • Hate
  • Comedy

• When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.

  

  Princess Beatrice of York
  • Time
  • School
  • Character

• The movie I'm really excited about that I had really fun doing is 'Feed the Dog.' It's with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. It's really fun. It's raunchy, like 'Superbad' meets 'Risky Business,' kind of. I got to be a really fun character, an out-there Mrs. Robinson-type character. I get to seduce Nat.

  

  Elisabeth Shue
  • Business
  • Character
  • Movie

• Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Fun
  • Comedy