As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

I never say 'never,' and I never say 'always.'

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else.

Second chances are not that important. What's important, is being ready when the first chance is given.

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

The sky won’t shed tears if stars refuse to shine

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Appearances are deceiving.

You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down.