Grace Kelly Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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'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.

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

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.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.

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

A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I’ve always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

My nerves could use a drink.

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

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

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

Anger and anger can not solve any problem.

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

I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs.

This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.

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

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

Getting angry doesn't solve anything.

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.

What I've learned in the past 12 years of recording (I made my first CD at 12) is how important it is to find one's authentic voice.

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

...she would have walked all the way up to East Sixty-Third Street, and probably 163rd Street, if it meant pouring even more into this memory that wasn't a memory.

That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters.

Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.