Dan Amboyer Quotes

You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

I grew up in a family that felt indifferent towards the royal family.

Bringing anyone into royal circles is a pretty tough act. Especially in the British royal family, which is scrutinized by the press as no one's been.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

Members of my family don’t get it…. The further away you’re removed from this chair [the King’s throne] the more of a prince or princess you are … the more you believe in absolute monarchy.

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

I've always been pretty indifferent towards the royal family. I went on a school trip once to Buckingham Palace, and all I can remember is that it was really boring.

I'm obsessed with historical English royalty.

I don't think I have enough German blood in me to get into the royal family.

If a prince marries a foreign princess, one to the manner born, he is being snobbish and old-fashioned. If he chooses a Diana or a Fergie, glamorous outsiders, they may never adapt to the restrictions of being Royal, with calamitous results.

It wouldn't bother me at all if I weren't Princess Caroline of Monaco.

I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am a supporter. I'm not someone who thinks we should get rid of them. But what I've struggled with is the lack of emotionality that the Queen seems to share.

My family's a ruling family.

My children are not royal; they just happen to have the Queen for their aunt.

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

In the museum, next to the dinosaurs---that’s where the monarchy should go.