Top 77 Diva Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Diva Quotes from famous people such as Maryse Mizanin, Glenn Close, Vaani Kapoor, Eva Marie, Sasha Velour, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It was my dream to become a WWE Diva.

It was my dream to become a WWE Diva.
Maryse Mizanin
Diva has a negative connotation.
Glenn Close
I want to work with happy, good people, who have a positive outlook. Not those who are grumpy, complaining and throw diva behaviour.
Vaani Kapoor
I am the youngest of three brothers so was constantly trying to upstage them all the time growing up, so that’s why being a WWE Diva is so fitting for me.
Eva Marie
My favorite diva is Dame Shirley Bassey from the U.K. I just love that every song she sings becomes crazy and intense with feeling. That’s how I feel in my daily life.
Sasha Velour
I’m not a diva, and I’m not mean to people or have weird rules.
Charli XCX
A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.
Jenifer Lewis
I don’t mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you’re Barbara Streisand.
Courtney Love
I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.
Dolly Parton
I think the era of the diva actress is coming to an end.
Amanda Seyfried
I’m from really humble beginnings. I’ve never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you’re pretending to be.
Heidi Montag
I’m a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing… I’m not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.
Joyce DiDonato
I am an outsider. I was never offered the kind of roles where I could play the glamorous diva, because there are already so many of them doing it – and doing it well. So I had to bring to the table much more than just looking good.
Taapsee Pannu
I’m a chanteuse and a diva, and I’m an actress who likes a script.
Jane Badler
I started out as being a diva in a golden dress and now to a more bearded drag artist guy in boots.
Conchita Wurst
I was very pleased to see that things have come far, far away from the Diva Search days where it was, ‘Let’s have a bunch of girls in bikinis flop around and look stupid so the public can vote them on or off the show.’
Ivory
Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.
Jessie J
I would love to have a Divas Hardcore championship. If we had a hardcore cage, we’ll just paint the cage pink or something and make it extra girly so it’s so, like, Diva.
Paige
I’m always nice and then people are happy to hang out with me! There’s no point being a sassy diva queen.
Camille Rowe
So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
Patti LaBelle
I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she’s risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
Xavier Dolan
After ‘Student Of The Year,’ when I played that baby-doll, diva character, I knew I would be stereotyped, and I wanted to break that image of me. I loved that role, but I don’t want to be attached to one particular genre, so ‘Highway’ was a blessing in disguise.
Alia Bhatt
I’m definitely not the ‘Diva’ sort, I’m the wrestler.
Tenille Dashwood
I’m no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I’ve never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.
Nicole Scherzinger
I always loved playing the sidekick, and that’s what I expected – I didn’t think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.
Jessie Mueller
It’s not like I don’t like the term ‘Diva.’ It’s what you make of it.
Bayley
I loathe the word ‘celebrity,’ and I hope I’m not a diva. Whenever I see diva-ish behaviour, I just leave the room; I find it appalling. You should always try to be civil to people.
David Harewood
I’m such a diva on set.
Emily Blunt
When it comes to a lip sync, Kennedy Davenport is someone that, when I first turned 18, I was going to the clubs in Dallas, because I went to college there, seeing, and tipping, and would live. She’s the dancing diva of Texas.
Shangela
With WWE, I got this audition and thought there was no way that I was going to actually get the job. They were doing the WWE Diva Search at the time, and I didn’t think I would get the job because I wasn’t a wrestler.
Lana
I tend to hide behind my status of being a diva; it’s easy for me to embrace that part of me and seek confidence by being a bit outrageous at times.
Alex Newell
I mean, no one has ever gotten to see what it's like to

I mean, no one has ever gotten to see what it’s like to be a WWE Diva. Yes, we are all a bunch of athletes and we have to get down on the ring, but we also have to attend photo shoots and red carpets.
Eva Marie
I openly admit it: I am a diva with my food.
Tulisa
Well, the first two movies of any size that I did were a movie called ‘Everybody’s All American’ that Taylor Hackford directed – I was pretty diva on that – and then ‘Pretty Woman,’ which is probably my first real breakthrough.
James Newton Howard
I didn’t grow up with a musical family. My mom had a lot of CDs in the house, particularly Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, ABBA, all the sort of like diva icons. She’s Swedish, so she loves pop music.
Nina Nesbitt
I’m determined to be a diva.
Lexa Doig
As a young actor, it’s important to see how the greatest in the industry work… diva behavior is never it.
Sean Maguire
To be honest, I don’t know… something about the camera like turns me into such a diva. Like when it’s on and I see my face in the camera, I’m just like, oh girl you look so good!
Bretman Rock
I go home and don’t get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don’t get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven’t loaded the dishwasher for her.
Katherine Jenkins
When I was younger, I used to just want to please everybody and not want to be an issue or not be considered a diva. I’ve just grown up and realized you have to look out for yourself and stick up for yourself, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Dylan O’Brien
I’m excited about developing as a Diva and finding where my place is in this company.
Eve Torres
‘Bloodlight and Bami’ is all verite. The director Sophie Fiennes began filming Ms. Jones in the mid-2000s and simply observes her on stage and off. She follows her home to Jamaica, where the diva mellows, almost unconsciously, into a daughter, sister, and parishioner.
Wesley Morris
I’ve learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I’m not talking big diva. I’m quiet. I’m shy. And I became stronger when I stopped trying to be the person they wanted me to be.
Crystal Waters
Being a Diva in a man’s world, you’re constantly in an uphill battle; pitching ideas, trying to get TV time, trying to get in-ring time, the whole nine yards.
Michelle McCool
These diva wide receivers want to go to the bathroom. As a defensive lineman, we didn’t go to the bathroom.
Booger McFarland
There are obviously a lot of negative connotations that go along with being a Diva. But to me, being a Diva is someone who takes care of herself, that looks fabulous, is always on point with her fashion, and doesn’t care what anybody thinks.
Carmella
When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls – I’d be the crazy diva Barbie and she’d be the homeless Barbie.
Jordana Brewster
Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I’ve pulled through everything and I’ve not become bitter about it.
Samantha Fox
I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word ‘diva’ and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn’t afraid to show it.
Nick Cannon
It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
Diana Ross
And I think every woman can be a diva, and every woman can be just a woman. I think life is a runway, and you can do everything you want. If you want.
Daniela Vega
I’m not a diva, I’m not an egotistical guy that comes and thinks he’s bigger than anyone.
Ashley Cole
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That’s quite a title to carry around.
Calista Flockhart
Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
Zaha Hadid
If my mum thinks I’m acting like a diva she’ll soon tell me off… She’ll cut me down to size!
Katherine Jenkins
I don’t do like diva trips and stuff.
Shirley MacLaine
I’m proud of the Diva division.
Eve Torres
I’m so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
Carine Roitfeld
I just want to be like a little bit of Bluto from ‘Animal House,’ mixed with like some amazing diva like RuPaul.
Willam Belli
When actors get a bad name for diva behavior – I’ve never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.
Hayley Atwell
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Nancy Dubuc
I didn’t want to annoy anyone or be seen as a diva.
Jesy Nelson
There's nothing wrong with being a Diva. If it's becaus

There’s nothing wrong with being a Diva. If it’s because I take care of myself and look good, then I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.
Carmella
The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.
Patti LuPone
The thing with diva receivers is, they’re productive. It’s not like they’re the third-string receiver who catches 40 balls for 612 yards a year.
Carson Palmer