There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful, one of the most intelligent, one of the most sensitive, charming actresses---and friends, in my life---but also in the later stages of her life, the UNICEF ambassador to the children of the world. The generosity, sensitivity, the nobility of her service to the children of the world and the mothers of the world will never be forgotten.

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

They say the bad guys are more interesting to play but there is more to it than that - playing the good guys is more challenging because it's harder to make them interesting.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name.