Top 33 Coronation Quotes

You know, I was a kid when I went into ‘Coronation Street’ and I had an amazing time. I got some fantastic opportunities from Corrie and from ‘Soapstar’ and I’d never say they did anything other than help me.

Acting was something I always really wanted to do and, when I left school and was old enough to get an agent, ‘Coronation Street’ was, like, the thing to get into.

The coronation is a symbol of power, but it’s not a symbol for us the people. It’s a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years.

I miss everyone on ‘Coronation Street,’ but I don’t miss playing Becky.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I’d become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn’t see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

‘Coronation Street’ was my first job, Zoe was a controversial character, and I wasn’t used to everyone looking at me.

I left ‘Coronation Street’ so I could spend more time with the kids because it was difficult getting a work life balance.

My dad doesn’t watch ‘Coronation Street.’ But my mum is a massive fan. I’d like to think my dad will watch it for a few token episodes, as I’m in it.

I’d been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and ‘Coronation Street,’ but I was always hunting for work. After ‘The New Avengers,’ I never had to wait for work again.

I did go to public school, but that’s only because my parents were abroad. As a matter of fact, I think that’s helped my work. I can go from Victoria Wood’s ‘Dinnerladies’ to playing Barbara Cartland, from ‘Coronation Street’ to playing Celia in Last ‘Tango’.

Coronation Street’ in my opinion is based on strong, feisty women and downtrodden men – that’s what the show has always been about.

The RSC changed my career, and ‘Coronation Street’ changed my life.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

I’ve become President of the Author’s Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I’m crazy about it. It’s got some bugs, but it’s basically replaced my laptop. I’m very happy with it.

I think you can’t have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.

I always took ‘Coronation Street’ a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I’d been there five years. It just felt right to leave.

I was earning a living. I was getting into more acting, then ‘Coronation Street’ came along, and it was the chance of a lifetime.

It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching ‘Coronation Street.’

I’ve always been a fan of ‘Coronation Street,’ and the chance to work on it was just too good to miss, but it meant a great upheaval for my family.

I’ve never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We’re all very close friends so it’s very much a professional attitude.

I initially went into ‘Coronation Street’ for three months. If they had said back then, ‘Do you want to do it for six years?’ I probably would have said, ‘I don’t think so.’

Before ‘Coronation Street,’ I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I’m a jobbing actor again.

When I left ‘Coronation Street,’ I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with such a unanimously wonderful company of good people – and I’ve just come to that good bunch again.

I grew up on a street that’s similar to the ones you used to see in Coronation Street on TV. We had an outside toilet at the bottom of the yard and I had to share a bedroom until my older sisters left home.

I would always consider going back to ‘Coronation Street.’

It sounds a bit cheesy saying ‘Coronation Street’ is like one big happy family, but there is a real aspect of that.

I am unashamed to say that I have a super-crush on Kate Oates, the series producer of ‘Coronation Street.’

Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden’s humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

I’m turning into one of those people who writes to the actors on ‘Coronation Street’ – a really obsessive fan.

I’ve had a fantastic time at ‘Coronation Street,’ and I’m chuffed at the reaction to Becky. It’s been this lovely redemption story, and I think that’s what the viewers have enjoyed about it.

When I appeared in ‘Coronation Street,’ I lived in Manchester and enjoyed it very much.

I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It’s part of all our lives.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.