Top 68 Quotes & Sayings by Grace Kelly

If I'd met the prince two or three years earlier, perhaps I might not have married him - at least not so soon. But we came together at the right time.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

I walk an hour almost every day - and very quickly - wherever I am. Sometimes I go on long, all-day hikes with friends.

We just don't like the idea of turning the children over to nannies and minders. We like to help them ourselves - and then, of course, we know what to tell them when they ought to do something on their own.

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I was constantly falling in love, and it never occurred to me that this was wrong or bad.

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

Some day, I'm going to get married, and I'll want to tell my children I was in Africa on a safari.

The women here in Monaco don't like me, and so I have to watch everything I say and everything I do because they're so critical.

I never really liked Hollywood. I found it unreal - unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain.

I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel.

I did enjoy and take pride in my work as an actress, yet I'm bemused by suppositions that my life since has somehow been less fulfilling. That certainly is not the case. Rather the reverse.

Ingrid Bergman made an enormous impression on me. I couldn't imagine where that kind of acting talent came from.

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

My husband often remarked what a pity it was that a great country like America, which in Europe is still regarded as such a young nation, should be represented seemingly only by old or infirm men.

Home is here in Philadelphia. I never like to be away too long.

My husband is a good father, concerned about his children.

I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.

I don't want to be a personality.

I never say 'never,' and I never say 'always.'

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

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.

I hated Hollywood. It’s a town without pity. Only success counts. I know of no other place in the world where so many people suffer from nervous breakdowns, where there are so many alcoholics, neurotics and so much unhappiness.

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.

Anger and anger can not solve any problem.

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 would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person. I would like to leave the memory of a human being with a correct attitude and who did her best to help others.

My nerves could use a drink.

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

When at last I took the time to look into the heart of a flower, it opened up a whole new world; a world where every country walk would be an adventure, where every garden would become an enchanted one.

My father had a very simple view of life: you don’t get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work, persistence and honesty. My father also had a deep charm, the gift of winning our trust. He was the kind of man with whom many people dream of spending an evening.

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

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

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.

Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.

If there is one thing that is foreign to me it is shopping for pleasure. On the other hand, I believe that it is right to honor all those who create beautiful things and give satisfaction to those who see me wearing them.

The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old, I fell in love with writing songs and knew I wanted to make music and play it for a lot of people. Back then I said I wanted to heal people with music and bring them together. I called my music, "PAZZ," which means pop and jazz. To this day, all of those things still ring crystal clear.

When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she’s Ava Gardner. It’s the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I’m never Grace Kelly, I’m always someone who looks like Grace Kelly.

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.

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

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.

My parents, despite their serious attitude toward life in general, and that of their children in particular, were very broadminded people. There was no such thing as a bad profession for them. As I was their daughter, they knew that, whatever profession I chose, I would do it well. That was enough for them. There was always trust among the Kellys.

A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn’t solve anything… I don’t like yelling and fighting and I can’t quarrel, I prefer to let it drop… When people use disagreeable words, I feel crushed and remember them for a long time.

One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western civilization is to concentrate upon and increase the solidarity of the family. This solidarity begins with a child at the mother's breast.

I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.

I do isometrics in church so while I'm doing my soul some good, I'm doing my body some good, too.

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.

Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality

I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don’t want to know the time when I’ll have to come to the studio even earlier.

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

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.