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.
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