Clare-Hope Ashitey Quotes

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.

In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.

The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

After many decades of Disney movies, we have been conditioned to expect princesses to fall in love quickly with their charming princes and 'live happily ever after.'

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.

I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.

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

One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.

In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.

A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after.

I'm not Cinderella.

In music, on stage and on screen, fairy tales have always been guaranteed moneymakers. It's no wonder then, that in these difficult economic times, there are fairy tales everywhere you turn. From 'Once Upon a Time' and 'Grimm,' to 'Mirror, Mirror' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman.'

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one rule of the fairy tale formula that I didn't want to break.

I saw 'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' when it came out, didn't like it too much. I found she was stupid.

There's something about wedding dresses that turn you into Cinderella a little.

Cinderella is older than she lets on. She's ancient. She's had work done. The Disney film was based on Charles Perreault's French story 'Cendrillon,' published in 1697.

My life has been nothing short of a fairy tale.

I don't want to get stuck in romantic comedy.

I've been waiting for Prince Charming like every other little girl.

The days when a princess was too delicate to sleep on a mattress with a pea under it are long gone.