Quotes from Catherine Oxenberg

It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes.

Fear doesn't enter into my vocabulary. Fear is the gateway to the next step in my development.

When my father was very young, he performed in Billy Rose's Aquacade.

I truly believe the eating disorder is gone. The discovery of what was at the bottom of it lifted me, and I walked into a different phase of my life.

I didn't think I could conceive.

Every time I watched my acting on 'Dynasty,' I cringed. Creatively, I felt stifled.

I'm a prankster with a Monty Python sense of humor that somehow gets misrepresented in those tacky supermarket publications as bratty, snotty, and rude.

As a mom, my priorities have changed.

My father told me I couldn't possibly be a model because I was too short. He's very protective. I did it partly to prove him wrong.

I meet my fears with excitement. They are an excuse to be courageous.

There was definitely a wild side to me that couldn't run free growing up in England.

I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

When it's supposed to be, when it's the right thing. I have a very strong opinion about things and what works best for me in terms of manifesting my desires.

Quite frankly, anything you have you will be told is detrimental or is an asset by whomever you run into, and in the end, you can't listen to anybody about anything.

If it's true, as I believe it is, that the planet is alive, then it's probably also true that we may reach a point at which she will begin to defend herself against us.

There's been a ham in every generation of our family.

I've done so much healing on myself, been through personal hell, through hell in my relationships; my children have been through so much, and we've gotten to a place of healing.

Mother was engaged briefly to Richard Burton years ago and did a tiny part with him in the film 'Jackpot.'

I know there'll be comparisons, but I consider it an honor to be compared to Audrey Hepburn. She's a legend.

What really ticks me off is how the public figures you automatically become the roles you play. What most people never see is the silly side of me.

I've always been concerned about the environment. Becoming a mother only intensified my concern. I became even more alarmed about what we are doing to the earth and what our children will inherit as a result.

I do get in the water, but I was ruined by 'Jaws' 'cause I saw it when I was 13. Before that, I used to get in the water everywhere and never thought twice about it. After watching 'Jaws,' I was scared of the water. I have Steven Spielberg to thank for giving me another phobia.

Since we're all Mother Earth's children, I like to think that more and more of us will be out there helping her against those who are hurting her.

I was afraid I'd be typecast forever as a mediocre actress.