90 Cinderella Quotes

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Famous Cinderella Quotes

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl. — Amy Adams

Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress. — Kiera Cass

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep. — Walt Disney

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess — Christian Dior

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. — Alfred Hitchcock

I'm the girl who still believes prince charming exists somewhere out there. — Taylor Swift

Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f****n' princess! — Gerard Way

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Just because you don't have a prince, doesn't mean your not a princess. — Zayn Malik

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin? — Ellen Page

Story book endings, fairytales coming true. — Carrie Underwood

Mirror, mirror, here I stand. Who is the fairest in the land? — Wilhelm Grimm

There are so many girls, and so few princes. — Liza Minnelli

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be. — Princess of Wales Diana

Short Cinderella Quotes

  • I really don’t care what people think. — Charli XCX
  • I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker! — Dolly Parton
  • Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness? — J. K. Rowling
  • Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella — Don Marquis
  • I really don't care what people think of me. — Chris Kyle
  • The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting. — Leonard Ravenhill
  • The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds. — Virginia Madsen
  • I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off. — Lea Salonga
  • If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella. — Susanna Kaysen
  • The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie. — Maria Tatar

Cinderella Story Quotes

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me. — Chris Evert

Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice. — Anne Sexton

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story — Hilary Duff

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite. — Bill Pullman

To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me. I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came. — Evelyn Keyes

Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles!” said Hermione. “We didn’t hear stories like that when we were little, we heard ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and ‘Cinderella’ —” “What’s that, an illness?” asked Ron. — J. K. Rowling

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other. — Malala Yousafzai

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs? — Kenneth Branagh

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do. When I tell the story of Cinderella, the sprite does not want me to make it into an allegory of the fall of communism. The sprite would be unhappy if I did that. — Philip Pullman

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came. — Evelyn Keyes

Cinder Quotes

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. — Albert Einstein

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family. — Pat Buchanan

What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. — Martin Luther

My only mistake was in waiting too long to be rid of you", Adri said, running the washcloth between her fingers. "Believe me, Cinder. You are a sacrifice I will never regret. — Marissa Meyer

Hatreds are the cinders of affection. — Walter Raleigh

Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness. — Marissa Meyer

What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same. — Helen Keller

Hatreds are the cinders of affection. — Sir Walter Raleigh

Oh, my stars! Think about Prince Kai! You could dance with Prince Kai!” This made Cinder pause and squint into Iko’s blinding light. “Why would the prince dance with me?” Iko’s fan hummed as she sought an answer. “Because you won’t have grease on your face this time. — Marissa Meyer

Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes. — Ingrid Newkirk

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More Cinderella Quotes

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job. — Cecily von Ziegesar

When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster. — Boris Karloff

I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married - the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilton so I was the poor little Cinderella. And when I got a divorce nine months later I never told the court why, but he was cruel. — Elizabeth Taylor

Cinderella said to snow white, how does love get so off course? All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse. — Faith Hill

Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene. — Ben Hecht

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals. — Zac Efron

In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby. — Sayings

Ah," he said. "I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take issue with the objectification of women in Cinderella, and the reliance on shoes as a means of identification. Surely you understand. — Maureen Johnson

Hey Nana, If Cinderella's glass slipper fits so perfectly, I wonder why it fell off along the way? I can't help but think that it was on purpose, to attract the prince's affections. No matter what I do, I'll still have the fate of a girl who just keeps getting hurt, wondering if she can be happy in this pointless, one man show? — Ai Yazawa

I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch. — Jude Law

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax. — Charles Perrault

If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball. — Warren Buffett

...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love. — William Allen White

Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling. — Des Hanafin

I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life. — Diora Baird

It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit recently, and in Russia, they completely believe they own this tale. And in Italy, they feel it absolutely is part of who they are. There is a timeless web to it. — Kenneth Branagh

It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun. — Garth Brooks

I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes. — Amy Adams

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. — Gwen Stefani

I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic for me, that's such a mark in my life and my career and then the bonus of just working with my favorite person in the whole world, Whitney [Houston], like her voice just did something to my spirit. — Brandy Norwood

Ah, there should be a young man, ein schone Junge carrying Blumen, a bouquet of roses. There should be cold Rhine wine and Strausswaltzes, and on the long way home kisses in the shadow of an archway, like a Cinderella. — Laurence Stallings

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat. — Alan Bradley

We're from the ghetto. Venus is a ghetto Cinderella. People from the ghetto don't get nervous. — Richard Williams

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella. — June Foray

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