Top 88 Diana Quotes

It’s been difficult for me to get my head around Diana’s death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it’s there in your face year in, year out, it’s hard.

There’s no recreating what Michael Jackson and Diana Ross did in ‘The Wiz’. We’re trying to figure out who these characters are in 2015. How would these times change their motives, change the things they would say and do?

Diana and I had a very good relationship with no personal problems. The only problem we did have was with the media, and the only place we could have any real privacy was at Kensington Palace, as they could not get to us there.

I think I popped out of the womb singing Diana Ross.

I really think that it’s disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life – Diana, an inspirational woman – and then it changed, but they still won’t change it in London! It’s horrible!

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn’t get into makeup fast enough.

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.

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.

I’ve always idolized Diana Ross’s hair. Why not have fun, big curls? You see the same sleek waves everywhere.

Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.

I think Princess Diana enjoyed it here in Pakistan immensely. She had a good time. But she never came to my family home. She came to my home in Lahore instead.

My mum used to listen to Motown. Diana Ross was my first singing teacher, really. I’d just sing along all the time.

Back in the 1980s, the ‘News of the World’ had specialised in digging into the privacy of criminals. In the 1990s, enriched by the excavation of Princess Diana’s volatile life, they had widened their work to mine the activities of any celebrity, any public figure.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

No matter what Diana is saying, it kind of goes down at the end. It’s like a sadness.

The thing I know about Diana Trout is that she’s the hardest-working person. She even says it in season one – that nobody works harder than she does. I believe that’s always been true about her. That is why she has high expectations of everyone around her.

Steve Binder did the Elvis comeback special in 1968, you know. He did the Diana Ross special. He has won Emmy Awards. I think he’s the premier, variety special man in America.

I would’ve loved to dress Diana Vreeland. I just loved her work as a creative woman and as a business woman – unpredictable, exciting, fun, and very, very clever.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from ‘The Onedin Line’ to ‘Hedda Gabler’ with Dame Diana Rigg.

Diana introduced me to Princes William and Harry. Diana just wanted her sons to know what was happening in her life.

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.

There’s always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.

I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.

Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was ‘as thick as two short planks,’ became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts.

Id been wanting to do dramatic work for awhile, and Ive been studying with a really wonderful acting teacher, Diana Castle.

The most frequent thing people said to me about Princess Diana when I was conducting interviews for my biography was that she could create a circle of intimacy in the middle of a crowd.

For much of the final decade of the 20th century, one story regularly dominated the news across much of the developed world. It was the unravelling of the marriage between the heir to the British throne and his beautiful, charismatic princess, Diana.

Growing up, I loved Boy George, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross.

Despite all the silver of Diana and Mercury, their images will be found on the lake. For the sculptor looking for new clay, he and his people will be flooded with gold.

The fact is, Charles and Diana’s marriage was a train smash in many ways, and, as Camilla will one day be Queen, it’s important for the public to understand she’s not some terrible woman.

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.

I always loved James Brown, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke.

I have no living memory of Diana, but I had this weird thing where my mum used to look incredibly like her, and often got mistaken for her in public.

I was in Boston, Massachusetts, when Princess Diana died.

Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, ‘No, you have to let me lead.’ So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

Growing up, I had a natural love for women like Diana Ross, Mary Wells, Ella Fitzgerald. Then I got into Dionne Warwick, Nina Simone, and Patsy Cline.

The national treasure that is Diana Ross is a dim light compared with who she is as a mother. My mom paved the way not only for my career but also for who I am as a human being.

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in ‘Burke’s Peerage.’ My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor.

I never really saw my mom as Diana Ross. My mom was my mom.

My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought ‘The Wiz’ soundtrack was the most amazing thing I’d ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

Once, when I was playing a nude scene in an indifferent play in New York, a critic wrote, ‘Diana Rigg is built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses.’ Do you think that’s fair?

‘Next to Normal’ has challenged me as an actor because of how complex Diana is. And that’s got me hungry for another character like that in a non-singing role because it would be interesting to express that same intensity in a different way.

I think I’d be lying if I said it didn’t help me in my journey with everything to play someone like Diana. She was so openhearted to everything and explored so much.

Diana Ross… she’s the bomb.

All I want to do for the rest of my life is be with Diana 24/7. We’re creative people, and we love to work together.

Princess Diana was an icon and her effect on the world remains profound and inspiring. To explore her through Peter Morgan’s writing is the most exceptional opportunity and I will strive to do her justice.

I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren’t beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

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.

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same ‘Love Boat’ voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

I love a lot of the ’70s singers: Pam Grier from the ‘Foxy Brown’ movie, Diana Ross, Tina Turner. They’ve always been able to embrace their hair, and they’ve never been afraid to take risks and go all out and make it thick and fun and a statement at the same time.

It wasn’t until I picked up Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones and Stephen King that I found there were people who were like me.

Diana became a superstar when she became a part of the Royal Family because she brought youth and glamour and fun into a staid and dusty institution, and at times she eclipsed the Prince of Wales. It was one of the early problems within their marriage.

When Lady Diana Spencer first visited Balmoral, aged 19, she charmed all the Royals and the Queen especially.

I’m extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don’t mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn’t exist, as did Oprah.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

I don’t care if the critics don’t like me. I want to be the people’s designer, like Diana was the people’s princess.

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.’

After Diana passed, I did not believe for one second that I would remarry or that I would be in love again.

I very much loved my late wife, Diana Joy Colbert, and I’d rather hold onto what I can.

It is very annoying – things have been written by people who didn’t know me at all or Princess Diana. They were written by people who never knew me or met me. It did make me angry. I just stopped reading the papers.

Diana Krall I met in, I think it was Canada. She’s a lovely lady. Her husband, Elvis Costello, is a great star.

Americans fall into two categories when it comes to British royalty: loyalists and rebels. Loyalists made Princess Diana the all-time best-selling 57-time cover girl of People magazine.

What did the paparazzi do to Diana? They chased her and they killed her.

I always try to emulate those I admire. Pamela Harriman, Coco Chanel, Wallis Simpson, Jean Harlow, Diana Vreeland.

I am a trained singer, but I had to unlearn how to sing with a coach, because Diana wasn’t trained.

I got to meet Princess Diana at Leicester Square, where we had a big premiere. It was one of the great experiences in my life.

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.

We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

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 really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

There wasn’t a favorite team or player in the Betts household. I played baseball, day in, day out, and learned the game my own way alongside my parents – Willie and Diana.

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 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 really miss Diana. I loved her so much.

You can’t understand old Diana – older Diana – properly without understanding a 19-year-old living with her flatmates, going on her first date with Charles. You need to understand the trajectory that she underwent.

I think Diana was a very friendly person.

I do not… look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine… I am… femi-none.

With the ’60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross’ solo stuff. I just loved it.

I loved playing young Diana so much. I am so fond of her, it’s almost insane.

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven’t seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross ’cause she’s an icon. I’m salivating to do that.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

One of the only things I’ve regretted was saying yes to a TV special, ‘Motown Mania,’ and I said I’ll sing you a Diana Ross song. It was just naff.

I thought wasn’t nobody supposed to get gold records except those people on Motown, like Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross.

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.