Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

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.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

I find the rational part of my mind curled up in a corner of my head and convince it to talk to me.

I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all. And I understand everybody thought it was that way because of what was being put out there.

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

I like to challenge myself and I like to try new things.

I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility