“This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.”

I’ll be goddamned if I’m going to stay in a business where I have to get up earlier and earlier and it takes longer and longer for me to get in front of a camera.

At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

I never say ‘never,’ and I never say ‘always.’

Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

A person has to keep something to herself or you’re life is just a layout in a magazine.

I am basically a feminist. I think that women can do anything they decide to do.

Anger and anger can not solve any problem.

Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It’s a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality.

A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

I’ve always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.

Having a teenage daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don’t know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head – or what.

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.

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.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

A drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof.

It’s true drinkin will kill ya, but if you’re drunk you don’t care.

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don’t smoke or drink.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.