Top 90 Prom Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Prom Quotes from famous people such as Alicia Witt, Swizz Beatz, Cameron Monaghan, Skeet Ulrich, Kenny Ortega, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole hig

I’d never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don’t think they knew where to put me.
Alicia Witt
I didn’t go to prom – I DJ’d all my proms.
Swizz Beatz
I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.
Cameron Monaghan
I didn’t even go to my prom. I didn’t have one date in high school.
Skeet Ulrich
I was working in theater, so I didn’t get to go to my prom.
Kenny Ortega
I was missing out on public school and going to the football games, prom or homecomings. But I’ve been to three World Championships… so I think it’s like a win-win.
Simone Biles
Being deemed the most successful at prom does not mean you’re going to do the best in your life.
Lauren Cohan
My ideal prom date would have to be cute, funny, sweet, nice.
Kendall Jenner
Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn’t win, but we got Prince and Princess.
Tom Lenk
I was a busy kid in high school – a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.
John Legend
I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
Rachelle Lefevre
When I went to prom, I was in a group picture, and a parent zoomed in and took the picture of only me. I was weirded out, and later he was like, ‘Sorry, I was sending that to my sister.’
Morgan Saylor
I wore some stupid brocade dress to my prom.
Leandra Medine
Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
Adora Svitak
I didn’t even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn’t know how to dance.
Romeo Miller
I was pretty much a homebody; didn’t really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.
Michael Rosenbaum
I never went to a high school prom. I went to a junior high prom, but I never had the high school prom. It was all fake and on TV.
Tiffani Thiessen
I could’ve gone to prom… or I could’ve done ‘X-Men.’
Lana Condor
I actually didn’t go to prom. I didn’t have the chance.
Lili Reinhart
I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.
Mary Ellen Mark
It wasn’t that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.
Rita Rudner
I was prom queen, and the year before, I was prom king. It was kind of the same; you just got a differently shaped crown.
Andreja Pejic
It was nice to make things right, and I went to prom and actually had a good time in the TV world – the real world wasn’t so much fun.
Nicholas Brendon
I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn’t go to the prom with them.
Davy Jones
In high school, I had a singing group, and I designed the outfits and made my friends’ prom dresses.
Tina Knowles
I’m a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.
Hunter Hayes
With tennis, if you’re very good at a young age, you don’t even go to your prom. You’re down at some tennis academy in Florida where you’re on the court 8 hours a day. It’s brutal.
Douglas Brunt
On ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ those kids were supposed to be outsider kids – you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there’s no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn’t the prom queen, hottest girl in school.
Rob Thomas
I never owned a suit until after the election. I got married in jeans and boots. My wife and I, when we went to prom, I was in a pair of jeans.
Markwayne Mullin
‘Prom’ is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers’ lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.
Cameron Monaghan
Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I’m attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I’m not interested in who’s going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
Randa Haines
Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketbal

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn’t go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.
Kevin Durant
I definitely believe in type casting. If you’re a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks ‘prom queen, cheerleader.’ It just happens.
Cassie Scerbo
The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date.
Adora Svitak
I thought, ‘If I can’t be prom queen, I can dance ‘Les Sylphide.’
Teri Garr
Don’t try to stand out that much for prom. Be yourself.
Lele Pons
I didn’t grow up the popular girl or the popular cheerleader. I’ve never been to a prom, I didn’t have a lot of boyfriends, so I’m used to being on this side of life.
Wendy Williams
You’re supposed to go to prom during high school. I don’t go to high school. I homeschool.
Laurie Hernandez
I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting ‘The Outsiders.’
Rob Lowe
I think the prom is very serious also. It’s an American ritual, it’s a rite of passage, and it’s very much a part of this country.
Mary Ellen Mark
I went to the prom with a girlfriend of my sister’s, a platonic date.
Tim Matheson
Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was – and how fleeting life is.
Mary Ellen Mark
I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date.
Zooey Deschanel
During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera – which is logistically complicated – and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it.
Mary Ellen Mark
My prom dress was very sweet, very puffy, but I also wore little stiletto, pointed-toe heels, nylon hosiery, the whole nine yards.
Betsey Johnson
I’ve had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.
Hope Solo
My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. ‘Thinking Of You’ is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.
Bella Thorne
We have this film that we hope to finance, it’s called ‘Southern Rights.’ It’s a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there’s a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.
John Legend
I didn’t actually have a prom. In Australia, we call them ‘socials,’ which is hilarious. I did always find them pretty awkward, because I went to an all-girls school.
Robin McLeavy
I had grown up watching these American proms in movies, thinking, ‘Wow, that looks like so much fun! I want a corsage! I want a date!’ So getting to actually have my own movie American prom was a real treat.
Geraldine Viswanathan
Adolescence isn’t just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
Jena Malone
Guys are awesome, but I vote for going to prom with a group of friends. It’s so much less drama.
Noah Cyrus
At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you’re cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
Laura Marano
I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad.
Lorde
I’ve never been innocent, but I don’t think I’m a bad kid! I didn’t get voted prom king. I was kind of the dancer, the performer, but I was always very athletic, too.
Jake T. Austin
When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming ‘Troy.’
Garrett Hedlund
I’ve never actually been to prom.
Austin Butler
I didn’t go to my prom. I didn’t go to my homecoming.
Russ
In high school for prom, I asked my girlfriend – we were both into horror movies – by dressing up as a zombie. I had a bloody t-shirt and I spray-painted a giant question mark on my t-shirt and had people hold bloody sings saying, ‘Dying to go to prom with you.’
Justice Smith
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.
S. E. Hinton
I definitely think prom should feel sophisticated. I’m not really into cutouts and all that. I would go for a more simple look – maybe a dark-colored dress and a red lip and long wavy hair; and for nails, a French tip is always classic and cute!
Kylie Jenner
I actually didn’t get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join ‘NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.
Lance Bass
After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing

After ‘Prom Night’ I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That’s the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.
Brittany Snow
I was the girl that didn’t go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
Bebe Rexha
YA fiction tends to have a finite quality. You’re looking toward a goal – prom or graduation or revolution – and we leave these characters after a moment of tremendous transformation.
Leigh Bardugo
I’ve always been interested in photographing traditions and customs – especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage that has always been one of the most important rituals of American youth. It is a day in our lives that we never forget – a day full of hopes and dreams for our future.
Mary Ellen Mark
I’m not looking for people to put that vote on me to be prom king of the UFC.
Demetrious Johnson
I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys’ sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.
Ari Graynor