I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it’s like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.
I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.
When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They’d call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.
There is no place in a city that can’t be better. There is no toad that can’t be a princess, no frog that can’t become a prince.
I just think about little me – what it would have meant to me to see a chubby girl in movies and a big girl get the guy and be the princess, be the hero. I think that would’ve really changed a lot for me.
The sad thing is, I never wanted to be Princess Leia – I always wanted to be Han Solo!
‘The Princess Bride’ is by far the most popular film I’ve ever done. I don’t think I’ll ever top it.
I was so obsessed with ‘The Princess Bride.’ I loved it so much that I even have a re-enactment I did of a radio play of the iocane powder scene.
We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
I’ve totally embraced it. I like Princess Leia. I like how she was feisty.
I always wanted to be a princess like Cinderella.
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, ‘The Little Mermaid’ wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her.
I’ve learned that I want what I deny. I want someone who is crazy about me, who treats me like a princess. I want the picture-perfect fairy tale stuff.
Adult fantasy gets a bad name. You think of Xena – Warrior Princess. If you don’t do it expensively, it becomes tacky and you end up just appealing to 45-year-old single men.
Before he played CIA Director Saul Berenson on ‘Homeland,’ a much younger Mandy Patinkin gained some fame as Inigo Montoya, a legendary swordsman, in ‘The Princess Bride.’
I was such a Jewish princess. My whole life was leading up to marrying a rich man and living on 48th Street.
I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father’s side – a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I’ve often been cast in exotic roles – Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks.
My first-ever role was the king in ‘The Princess and the Pea.’
Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.
There’s nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I’m that icon.
I’m always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That’s, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in ‘The Fighter’ was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.
It wouldn’t bother me at all if I weren’t Princess Caroline of Monaco.
People imagine that everything is easy when you’re a princess, but we’re still human beings. Some of my friends don’t want to go out with me anymore – to go to a restaurant, I have to use a different door.
I grew up with six brothers, and I’m from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not around the house. It was more like sports and comic books, so getting to work for Marvel is like my version of being able to be a princess.
I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.
Marry Prince William? I’d love that. Who wouldn’t want to be a princess?
I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote ‘The Little Princess’ and ‘The Secret Garden.’ And I loved the ‘Little House on the Prairie’ books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I want to be old Princess Margaret, without a doubt. Kaftan wearing, Caribbean island-dwelling… that’s my inner spirit animal.
I had this little piece of me that always wanted to be an actress, but I would never say it out loud because it was kind of embarrassing because where in San Jose do you become an actress? You don’t, really. It was very far-fetched. It was similar to me saying, ‘I want to be a princess.’
The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.
I think I’m going to put together a compilation under Disney’s name of my songs that I’ve done for them – because I’ve done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that’s the next thing that’s coming out.
Of course I took advantage of the publicity that surrounded my friendship with Princess Margaret.
You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
I never wanted to nap. I was always mature for my age. I wanted to put on a dress and look cute. Everyone else can nap, but I’m going to be a princess over here!
I kind of got my big break with ‘The Princess Diaries’ and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: ‘Did you always want to be a princess growing up?’ And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.
Since I got into the movies, ‘Running Scared,’ that did $40 million. ‘Princess Bride,’ I got good reviews for the character Miracle Max. ‘Memories of Me’ didn’t do well. ‘Throw Mama from the Train’ did $70 million. ‘Harry and Sally’ did 95 or 96. ‘City Slickers’ did $120 million.
‘Maaligai,’ where I play a dual role of a cop and a princess, initially was to be made as a Kannada movie. My producers from Mumbai and director Dil Sathya felt that it should be made as a bilingual in Tamil also, as I have a good market in K’town.
I have six brothers, so I definitely was aware of Marvel more than I was of princesses, but once you’re cast in a Joss Whedon Marvel show, you go and become even more of a bigger fan. You do your homework.
I just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed I was never going to die, and I’d been adopted and put on Earth because there was a war… and still sometimes, as I get older, I hope for my immortal life on Mars.
I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop ‘Beetlejuice’ and ‘The Princess Bride’ growing up.
Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.
I think ‘Apricot Princess’ actually came out before ‘Flower Boy.’
The influence of ‘Hidden Fortress’ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.
I’m the Princess of The Authority.
Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent – finding the man of your dreams – have a limited shelf life.
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with ‘Princess Diaries’ in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.
You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because ‘Revenge’ started. It was the time of my life, though!
If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.
I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably ‘Princess Mononoke.’
I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.
By shifting your focus to the princess and treating your life’s challenges like video games, you can trick your brain and actually learn more and see more success.
I’m always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That’s, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in ‘The Fighter’ was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.
Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.
Everyone asks me if I’m the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it’s harder.
