Top 50 Emma Corrin Quotes

I think in America, people have this, I think you guys have an obsession over the Royal family in a way that we don’t. Because I guess we just live with it.

I’m unsure how true this is, but I heard the story that Freddie Mercury and his friends used to dress Diana up like a guy and take her out to gay bars. That sounds incredible.

It’s been a joke my entire life, because I’m quite limby, I’m very uncoordinated. Everyone finds it hysterical that I’ve started dancing.

I remember being on holiday with my family maybe when the second season of ‘The Crown’ had come out and I remember them joking about who was going to play Princess Diana. One of my brothers was like, ‘You should play Princess Diana.’ I was at university at that time and I was like, ‘In my wildest dreams.’

Where I was living, there was a backyard, and we had a lot of neighbors with cats. These cats used to just sit on the wall, and one day I just turned around and there was a cat sitting there.

Dan Levy came to see my play, and I had dinner with him. He’s a gem. He’s the wisest, kindest, funniest person, and I didn’t want it to end.

There were things I tried to emulate, like Diana’s head tilt and her voice. She had a very unique way of speaking.

I only watched the documentary ‘Diana: In Her Own Words,’ which is now on Netflix. I didn’t watch another documentary. I don’t think I would have got the part without it.

If you have a good skincare routine down, it’s sort of the base to everything.

Schitt’s Creek’ has become my go-to, comforting favorite; it’s a they-feel-like-my-friends kind of TV program.

The funniest thing that happened was that my dog got recognized but not me.

I cannot express how unglamorous it is. There are moments, where you’re at an event, and you’ll be like, oh, this is quite shiny, but day to day – no. I live with flatmates that I’ve lived with for five years who have nine-to-five jobs. We all go to work, come home, cook dinner and there’s no shenanigans.

I do 5Rhythms a lot. It’s like dance meditation. You go into a room and there’s a DJ and it’s in the evening, completely sober, and it’s spiritual. You can just move and dance however you want.

I’m still figuring it all out, and I think everyone is. And that’s kind of the point is that there’s no fixed identity, especially for like people in the queer community. It’s going to be an ongoing journey, but yeah, I hope that sharing it helps people.

I was a huge tomboy when I was younger.

I wrote a lot as a child. I had an insane imagination.

Just because I’ve played this character doesn’t mean I have any understanding of what Diana was like, at all. Although I’d want to say she was incredible, I understand I also have no authority to say that.

I didn’t bond that much with my wigs, I’m afraid. The process of getting them on at like, six in the morning, was too laborious. I didn’t want to form any additional attachment to them.

I’m indifferent to the royal family really, but I do feel sorry for them. We know what happened to Diana. It’s an impossible situation.

A lot changed when I started working with Polly Bennett and we did a lot of character and movement stuff together.

Older Diana holds herself so well. The director would be like, ‘Emma, posture!’

Cats do this thing with their faces where they’re so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they’re observing.

I hate being asked what it’s like to play someone iconic.

I think I was trying to choose a name for him, and my flatmate was like, ‘Oh, you should call him Diana.’ I was like, ‘Yeah. Very funny.’ I think someone then said ‘Diana Spencer,’ and I’d always wanted to call my dog quite like an old person name, like Janet or something like that. ‘Spencer’ weirdly fit that bill.

People always ask how fame has hit me, and rarely do I feel it emotionally.

Working with Harry Lambert has brought so much fun and imagination into my personal style.

I’d run a mile if anyone in the Royal Family asked me to marry them!

I feel I’ve got to know Diana like you would a friend. I know that sounds really weird, but I get a great sense of companionship from her.

There’s this theme throughout my life of Diana cropping up. It doesn’t feel ordinary.

I get ‘young Jodie Foster.’

There’s a scene where Diana is having her first dinner at Balmoral, my first big scene with everyone. I didn’t really know anyone super well at that point. I had this big story to tell about hunting, a real tongue twister. And I just couldn’t say it.

I love figuring people out.

I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one.

I think for Diana, she came to the royal family thinking that it would be a family, that it would be exciting, because people would know who she was maybe. I know she was marrying a prince, but I think she genuinely thought that there would be a support system.

The industry loves to pigeonhole.

I feel like Diana helped me explore so many depths of myself and really do a big internal discovery of what I was feeling about everything because she was a very complex person.

I now feel drawn to projects where I bite off a bit more than I can chew.

We might take it for granted now, but back in the nineties, who was talking about mental health?

I have come to know Diana better than anyone else, so my sympathy will always lie with her. But I also have a huge appreciation of Charles, and what they both had to endure in that marriage. I don’t think you can pick a side.

I’m really terrible at fittings, I’m the biggest fidget in the world.

Everyone has this insatiable need to share things with everyone. I think people want to be seen.

I’m not a night owl, but for Glasto there was no chance I was going to miss a moment. I heard intriguing things about watching the sunrise from the stone circle, so that was on my list.

I’ve started to experience being followed around where I live, and it’s never nice. With acting, you realize that it’s part of what you sign up for, but with the royals, you’re sort of born into it.

You have to be very good at setting boundaries for yourself, so you’re not taken advantage of.

Why did the rejection of the modelling industry get to me so much? I think the answer is that these rejections were based on how I looked and I had always prided myself on a healthy amount of self-confidence which I was now rapidly losing.

I love to perform, it’s how I can best express myself.

I think that’s what Peter Morgan does so well, is to show very balanced sides of everyone.

A lot of people refer to young Diana as sweet and shy, and yeah, a lot of us are when we’re 18 or whatever.

My roots are in theater.

You think you’re doing the coolest thing in the world when you’re a teenager and you like someone.