I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

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.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

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

In the beginning it was all black and white.

John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

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

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

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

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

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

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

The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.

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

When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.