Vanessa Kirby Quotes

I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself.

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Everybody has an image of [princess Margaret], to a certain extent. But I felt it would have been harder if we were playing them as they are now. In a way, I don't know how much of a living memory we as a collective have of them in the '50s, when Margaret was 21 and this sort of Elizabeth Taylor. You don't think of your grandparents as being teenagers. You just can't - your brain just can't go there!

If I am going to be the future bloody Queen of England I'm going to wear that dress once because I'm giving up the rest of my life, all of my privacy. At least I can get a new dress every day!

[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.

I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.

I really enjoyed stepping into that side of [princess Margaret] and being silly and naughty and fun.

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

[Princess Margaret] was always trying to radicalize things.

People are so much more fascinated by the royal family generally than in England.

I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.

The birth certificate of the royal baby lists her parents' occupations as being 'the prince and princess of the United Kingdom.' It says that under occupation, which I guess sounds better than 'unemployed.'

I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century.

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.

Paradesi' remains close to my heart because Amina ages in the course of the film and I got to essay her life on screen.

William's marriage to Kate Middleton showed that social class, which seemed so important when Prince Charles was looking for a bride in the Eighties, is no longer an issue.

'Ray of Light' changed my life. The whole album, but that song specifically, was just so life-changing and incredible for me.

I don't think the monarchy is tawdry in the slightest. I think the monarchy is hugely important for Britain.

I had no idea what being on stage would be like or how I'd react to the applause. I didn't think I deserved their applause. Then I realized I'd done something to make them feel something. That made it okay. But it was weird. A nice weird.

I don't think you can have any actual idea of what the Royal Family are really like from how they are portrayed in the papers.

There is no chance of my marrying Princess Margaret.

To tell my story, to touch lives.

[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.