Ryland Grace Rocky's growing on me! At least he's not growing IN me, which was a concern for a while...
Most-quoted character in Project Hail Mary (2026): in 43 of its 56 quotes
Most scenes with: Rocky (18), Eva Stratt (8), Yao (3)
There's nothing she can't do
More lines from Ryland Grace
12 quotes Ryland Grace Ryland Grace I always wanted to be... mysterious. Talk too much. It's my problem. Like right now.
Ryland Grace Rocky, my hand is up. We can't just show up in a space ball unannounced and move into someone else's spaceship. Right? There has to be boundaries.
Ryland Grace [Whispering to camera]
He tells me what to do, he tells me why to do it, he tells me how to do it, he tells me when to do it, and then when I do it, he's like, "what are you doing?"
Ryland Grace [Watches a new package being thrown from "Blip A" after the first one bounced off the Hail Mary's hull]
Why is it moving so much slower than the last one? [Sighs and closes eyes] They think I'm dumb.
Ryland Grace Guys! This is first contact! With life! Outside of the, uh oh. Oh... it died.
Ryland Grace Carl and I made a mini-Venus out of a plywood box and as soon as the samples recognized the, uh, spectral signature of CO2 they were... they were like "whoop, there it is!"
Ryland Grace Wow! You're not gonna believe this. Nothing happened!
Ryland Grace The astrophage consumes the sun's energy and then they expel it for propulsion. They toot to scoot, basically.
Ryland Grace Okay buddy, I watch you sleep, but you have to wake up.
Ryland Grace Carl and I made a baby!
Ryland Grace We’re fathers, Carl!
Scenes with Ryland Grace
30 scenes Ryland Grace I put the 'not' in astronaut! I've never done a space walk, I can't even moonwalk! I haven't done any training, I haven't done the whole... the pool thing!
Olesya Ilyukhina
No, no, no. That is just what we do for the picture, for social media.
Ryland Grace I'm not heroic in any way. I get sick on an elevator!
Perfect. There's no elevator on the ship.
Ryland Grace You have a mate. How long you been together?
186.3 years.
Ryland Grace It's like, the honeymoon phase.
No understand.
Ryland Grace That's a joke, Rock, it's a long time. You've been together a long time.
Is not enough.
Words of encouragement.
Ryland Grace You can't just say "words of encouragement!"
Words of GREAT encouragement!
We leave now, question?
Ryland Grace Leave now. Statement.
Ryland Grace Commander Yao, I really appreciate what you all are doing.
I mean, you would do the same.
Ryland Grace I would choose just not to go at all. I don't have the bravery gene that you all have.
Trust me. It's not a gene. You just need to find someone to be brave for.
Ryland Grace [Whispering]
There's no way you can hear me right now.
Can hear.
Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty! Why room so messy, question?
Ryland Grace Well, I wasn't expecting company, was I?!
This room for garbage? Ohh!
How do you know when the hug is done?
Ryland Grace You just feel it.
Oh, are you feeling it now?
Ryland Grace Nope.
Ryland Grace We can't just show up in a spaceball unannounced and move into someone else's spaceship, right? There has to be boundaries.
Boundaries.
Ryland Grace We have one mission.
Mission.
Ryland Grace But we're two distinct individuals.
Individuals.
Ryland Grace Both working on our distinct, individual parts of that mission.
Mission.
Ryland Grace: Separately.
Separately.
Ryland Grace Ok.
Where my bedroom?!
Ryland Grace Bedroom?! For what?
Ryland Grace I need to get into orbit or we'll crash!
I have an idea. First, no crash. Then, no explode. Deal?
Ryland Grace [Thumbs down]
Deal!
Rocky: You are very brave.
Ryland Grace: I don't know about that.
You are bravest human I have ever met.
Ryland Grace Hey!
Is joke!
Ryland Grace I know.
I only meet one human. And it's you!
Ryland Grace I get it.
It's good joke.
Ryland Grace Good joke.
Ryland Grace It took, like, 200 years to figure out how bacteria works, so...
Please do it faster.
The consensus here is that it would be preferable if you did not die.
Ryland Grace Thanks, guys.
Ryland Grace I'm gonna go to sleep.
Mm, no understand word.
Ryland Grace Sleep? Uh, just uh, you go like this. [Lies down]
Ryland Grace No...
No no no no no!
Ryland Grace Not died, just laying here for 29,000 seconds and then we... wake up.
Oh... understand.
Do you stand by what you wrote?
Ryland Grace I was fired for standing by what I wrote.
You were fired for calling the leading scholar in your field a "staggering waste of carbon" at the UNESCO conference in Denmark.
I thought you made peace, question?
Ryland Grace I didn't mean any of that. That's just something you say.
Ryland Grace [Reading from computer]
Fist my bump? No. It's fist bump.
Ryland Grace It's not the same.
Ryland Grace So, you really think all this is going to work?
God willing.
Ryland Grace You believe in God?
Beats the alternative.
Ryland Grace We have 1,009 of these Little Engines That Could on the Hail Mary, and, uh...
Okay.
Ryland Grace [Whispering]
What?
What is Grace doing, question?
Ryland Grace [softly]
I'm having a moment.
Ryland Grace Imagine, for a second, that you're an interstellar microorganism.
I'm not doing that.
Ryland Grace Carl and I made a baby.
Ryland Grace You'll find a solution.
You are my solution.
Close the door!
Ryland Grace Why? I thought you said it was a safe neighborhood!
I make door, you close door!
More! No, no, no, left! Be left, more left, more left! Is perfect! No, wrong.
Mary
Erratic maneuver detected.
No. Wrong way, wrong way. Wrong angle, bad, bad, bad. Good, good, good! Good! Bad, not enough, not enough. Too much, too much, too much!
Ryland Grace I'm barely pulling it!
Left, left, left! No, is bad. Grace Rocky dead. All Rocky plural, all Earth die, we die, we die.
Grace look disgust when eat!
Ryland Grace How do you look when you eat?
It look beautiful!
Ryland Grace Show me.
[Proceeds to demonstrate]
Ryland Grace Oh my god! [Tries not to gag]
Ryland Grace *Whispering to video log* He has incredible hearing. He can see through walls. Personal space is at a premium...
Who is Grace talking to, question?
[To recording]
Hello, Earth. Plan is like fishing. We get very close to Adrian atmosphere and lower collector into clouds with chain. Then Grace go on hull to reel it in. If ship not at precise angle and speed, we die. Example: We must fly backwards to keep proper velocity, even though Grace still have no pilot experience!
Ryland Grace Hey, I've been practicing, haven't I?
Ryland Grace They seem to be... dimming the sun a tiny, teeny-weeny little bit.
Olivia
So no big whoop?
Ryland Grace It's a-It's a small whoop. It's small-to-medium whoop. Over the next 30 years, the Earth could cool maybe 10 to... 15 degrees.
Olivia
So it is a big whoop?
Ryland Grace Did you get your free hat?
Yeah I k-I kind of bought them?
