When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

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.

To know how glorious you are, it is only after your death.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength.

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing.

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.