I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

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.

First of all, never buy a man a plasma TV until you're married. A lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don't need a girlfriend

Feed my lambs, shepherd my sheep.

How well it had suited me, that absolute license to march up to evildoers and demand who, what, where, when and why?

I've learned a lot about my game every time I play golf in a men's event.

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it.

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

Housework is like cleaning fish. No matter how often you do it, it still stinks.

I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.