What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

I put everything I had into it - all my feelings and everything I'd learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children. And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity.

Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.

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

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

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 had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.