Queen Quotes

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.

Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.

Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

It's great to be queen!

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.

We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.