I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don’t want to know the time when I’ll have to come to the studio even earlier.

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.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

When I give I give myself.

Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.

My chest of books divide amongst my friends.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.