I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.

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.

Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.

Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

Our desire to share the gospel takes all of us to our knees, and it should, because we need the Lord's help.

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.