...Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff?" - Aunt Edna

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.

I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.

Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I'd ever make.

If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

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.

[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.