"[voiceover, reading from her diary] Lux lost it over Kevin Haynes, the garbageman. She'd wake up at 5 in the morning and lay about on the front porch like it wasn't completely obvious! She wrote his name in marker in all her bras and underwear and mum found them and bleached out all the Kevins. Lux has been crying on her bed all day"

"Do you like to wrestle?"

"She was the still point of the turning world, man."

"So much has been said about the girls over the years. But we have never found an answer. It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls... but only that we had loved them... and that they hadn't heard us calling... still do not hear us calling them from out of those rooms... where they went to be alone for all time... and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together."

"Given Lux's failure to make curfew everyone expected a crackdown, but few anticipated it would be so drastic. The girls were taken out of school, and Mrs. Lisbon shut the house in maximum-security isolation."

"We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy. And how you ended up knowing what colors went together."

"Almost every day, and even when she wasn't keeping an eye on Cecilia, Lux would suntan wearing a swimsuit that caused the knife sharpener to give her a 15-minute demonstration for free."

"No one could understand how Mrs. Lisbon and Mr. Lisbon, our math teacher, could produce such beautiful creatures."

"We knew that they knew everything about us, and that we couldn't fathom them at all."

"We knew the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them."

"In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself."

"Fat Louie as himself, Mia's cat"

"For every girl who's never dreamed of being a princess"

"From the director of Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride"

"She rocks. She rules. She reigns."

"Mayor Willie Brown as himself"

"Patrick Richwood as Mr. Robutusen, Mia's neighbor; a writer"

"Larry Miller as Paolo Puttanesca, Mia's hairdresser and beautician"

"René Auberjonois as the voice of Philippe Renaldi, Mia's late father and former Prince of Genovia"

"Mindy Burbano as Anita Harbula, Mia's gym teacher"

"Kathleen Marshall as Charlotte Kutaway, Clarisse's secretary"

"Sandra Oh as Geraldine Gupta, vice principal of Mia's school"

"Sean O'Bryan as Patrick O'Connell, Mia's English teacher who begins to date Helen"

"Patrick Flueger as Jeremiah Hart, a friend of Mia and Lilly's; an aspiring magician"

"Erik von Detten as Josh Bryant, a popular, egotistical student on whom Mia develops a crush"

"Caroline Goodall as Helen Thermopolis, Mia's mother; an artist"

"Mandy Moore as Lana Thomas, a popular cheerleader who bullies Mia and other students"

"Robert Schwartzman as Michael Moscovitz, Lilly's older brother who harbors romantic feelings for Mia"

"Heather Matarazzo as Lilly Moscovitz, Mia's eccentric and socially conscious childhood best friend"

"Héctor Elizondo as Joe, Clarisse's head of security and Mia's limousine driver"

"Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis, heir to the throne and Princess of Genovia"

"Julie Andrews as Clarisse Renaldi, Mia's grandmother and reigning Queen of Genovia"

"Philippe Renaldi (Mia's late father): [from his letter to Mia for her 16th birthday] "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on you'll be traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make the journey.""

"Suki Sanchez: It was just last night that San Francisco's own little princess partied at the beach. But what started out as innocent fun, soon turned into allegedly, too much fun. This is Suki Sanchez for KPFW."

"Paolo Puttanesca: I love your eyebrows. We'll call them Frida and Kahlo. If Brooke Shields married Groucho Marx, their child would have your eyebrows."

"Helen Thermopolis: [first lines] Time for school! Stop daydreaming, you'll be late for school."

"No longer does Mia stand for missing in action, Genovia has a new princess!"

"Mia Thermopolis is the daughter of local eclectic artist, Helen Thermopolis. They currently live in a refurbished firehouse south of Market Street. Mia is also the only grandchild of Queen Clarisse Renaldi, whose husband, King Rupert, passed away last year. This is Nelson Davenport, KRLH."