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

• As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• My two great treats in life are baked beans and vanilla ice-cream.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Life
  • Great

• I don't remember as a kid wanting to do or be anything else but drive something, be a race driver.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Remember

• My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Mom
  • Marry

• The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.

  

  Alan Moore
  • World
  • Important
  • Mind

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

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Fun
  • Comedy