Top 50 Grace Kelly Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I never say ‘never,’ and I never say ‘always.’”

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

3. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

4. “The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.”

— Grace Kelly

5. “Getting angry doesn’t solve anything.”

— Grace Kelly

6. “I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.”

— Grace Kelly

7. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

8. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

10. “Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family.”

— Grace Kelly

11. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

12. “My nerves could use a drink.”

— Grace Kelly

13. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

14. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

16. “Anger and anger can not solve any problem.”

— Grace Kelly

17. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

18. “For a woman, forty is torture, the end.”

— Grace Kelly

19. “A person has to keep something to herself or your life is just a layout in a magazine.”

— Grace Kelly

20. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

23. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

24. “Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It’s a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality.”

— Grace Kelly

25. “My real difficulty was to become a normal person again, after having been a movie actress for so long. For me, at the time I was living in New York and Hollywood, a normal person was someone who made movies.”

— Grace Kelly

26. “Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems.”

— Grace Kelly

27. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

28. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

29. “This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.”

— Grace Kelly

30. “Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.”

— Grace Kelly

31. “I would like to be remembered as a person who did her job well. An understanding, kind and decent human being.”

— Grace Kelly

32. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

33. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

34. “Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.”

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

37. “I don’t like yelling and fighting, and I can’t quarrel.”

— Grace Kelly

38. “It was thanks to Alfred Hitchcock that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.”

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

42. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

43. “If anybody starts using me as scenery, I’ll return to New York.”

— Grace Kelly

44. “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.”

— Grace Kelly

45. “A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.”

— Grace Kelly

46. “I don’t want to dress up a picture with just my face.”

— Grace Kelly

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

— Grace Kelly

48. “I do isometrics in church so while I’m doing my soul some good, I’m doing my body some good, too.”

— Grace Kelly

49. “I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds, and who was a kind and loving person.”

— Grace Kelly

50. “Women can do anything they decide to do.”

— Grace Kelly