Quotes from 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.

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

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

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 avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

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

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

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 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.

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.

Our life dictates a certain kind of wardrobe.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

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

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