I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

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.

Only when you cultivate your talents and gifts you prosper

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back

It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.