"I don't think I ever got parts that interested me. Well, I did occasionally, but more often than not, they did not interest me. I wasn't the standard beauty type--it was all marvelous-looking people like Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford--and I didn't have the glamor or whatever it is that was the style of those days, so consequently I got landed with parts that were not terribly interesting to me, and it was rather hard to be ambitious under those conditions. I probably would have fared better nowadays when looks count less."

(Maureen O'Sullivan, nata Maureen Paula O'Sullivan, attrice; Boyle, 17 maggio 1911 – Scottsdale, 23 giugno 1998)