Queen Quotes

Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

It's great to be queen!

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.

And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.

We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.

But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.

Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'