Grace Under Fire (1993–1998)

Brett Butler: Grace Kelly

Photos 

Quotes 

• Wade Swoboda : I love you like a Sister.

  Grace Kelly : Oh, Wade. I'm Southern. Please don't tell me you love me like a sister!

• [Sitting at Grace's kitchen table, discussing Jimmy's first month living in the garage] 

  Grace Kelly : He's two days late with the rent.

  Jean Kelly : What?

  Grace Kelly : I told him '$550, in cash, on the 1st of every month, under the ta... ble'

  [hesitating - reaches underneath table] 

  Grace Kelly : .

  Jean Kelly : It's times like these that make it hard to defend him.

  Grace Kelly : Next month I'm gonna tell him 'On the house', to see if he puts the money on the roof.

• Grace Kelly : We don't worship Satan on Halloween. We do that on Mother's Day.

• [Grace has walked in and discovered that ex-husband Jimmy is talking to black neighbor, Thad] 

  Grace Kelly : Jimmy! What did you say?

  Thad Alford : Well, I can honestly say I've met your whole Klan.

• Grace Kelly : Ex-husbands are like Crosby, Stills & Nash. They keep coming back - older and fatter.

• [Grace has taken Jean to see a doctor, who happens to be a black man] 

  Jean Kelly : He's Afro-American.

  Grace Kelly : Jean, African-American. "Afro-American" is like spaghetti-o's or something.

• [Grace and Jimmy are talking about their past relationship] 

  Jimmy Kelly : Grace, I am truly sorry for what I did to you. Hell, if I was the man I was today, I beat the Hell out of the guy I was then.

  Grace Kelly : You would?

  Jimmy Kelly : Yep. You know, I wonder how that fight would turn out? I got more meat on me now, but I was one quick son of a gun back then.

• [Russell is complaining as Grace has bought "Alternative Medicine"] 

  Russell Norton : Grace, all this phoney-baloney stuff is killing me.

  Grace Kelly : Russell, you shouldn't be so homeo-phobic