Queen Quotes

1. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”

2. “When I take good care of myself, it lifts my spirits, boosts my confidence, and makes me feel strong. When someone tries to throw me shade, it bounces right off. I look those haters straight in the eye, keep my chin up and shoulders back. Because I know I'm a fierce queen - and they know it, too.”

3. “I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”

4. “I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.”

5. “I've always said, if you treat yourself like a queen, you'll attract a king.”

6. “I am the queen of my own life and never take any pressure.”

7. “Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.”

8. “The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.”

9. “Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.”

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

11. “Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.”

12. “I really like milk. I'm a dairy queen.”

13. “I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.”

14. “I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.”

15. “In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors.”

16. “I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.”

17. “When the whole point of Queen was to be original.”

18. “My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.”

19. “Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.”

20. “I am definitely the queen. I definitely see myself as the queen.”

21. “If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.”

22. “Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.”

23. “Being queen is overrated.”

24. “I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.”

25. “I love the Queen. I love the whole fairy tale of the Royal Family; the Crown Jewels; Buckingham Palace; the tourist attraction. But really, is that what we've got a monarchy for? It's just for tourism, and then you survive and live off taxpayers' money?”

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

27. “It's great to be queen!”

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

29. “A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.”

30. “I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.”

31. “Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.”

32. “My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That's where I learnt a little about makeup and hair… I had never picked up or even seen a 'Vogue' before I was 17. I had no idea about fashion, magazines, models or designers. No idea.”

33. “Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.”

34. “He was just always Uncle Hugo. He still is. I remember the first time I was watching 'Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert,' and I was like, 'Oh that's what he does!'”

35. “And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.”

36. “It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.”

37. “LeBron is a great player and a great guy, but he's a drama queen.”

38. “Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.”

39. “I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.”

40. “Let's be real, I'm basically a drag queen.”

41. “I've always been a bit of a drama queen. I was into make-believe and dressing up.”

42. “I can't be the candy queen forever.”

43. “People pull from drag culture because drag artists are - it's the ultimate art form and it's the last underdog art form. I mean, even clowns have college, you know what I mean? Drag queens, you have to learn drag from another drag queen.”

44. “If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.”

45. “I wish I was more like my character. In character, I am the queen. I am strong. I am confident, sometimes cocky. I'm hard to beat. Out of character, I am a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a best friend and just the girl next door that likes Ben & Jerry's ice cream.”

46. “I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.”

47. “My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.”

48. “Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.”

49. “I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.”

50. “When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you're nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself.”

51. “There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'”

52. “I'll do manicures, but I won't wear nail polish because I don't have time to change it, and I chip my nail polish so quickly. I cannot last three days! I think it's the typing and the use - or overuse - of tech. I'm the chip queen!”

53. “Out of drag, I'm a white guy with a guitar, which isn't special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.”

54. “She's my mother and the Queen.”

55. “I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.”

56. “Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.”

57. “I don't believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.”

58. “I think a lot of people don't really understand. They call me a fat drag queen, which I resent, because I'm a character actor and a very good one.”

59. “Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.”

60. “If I were queen for a day, every city would have to spend one hour in utter silence: no music in shops and restaurants, no honking of horns, no conversations on mobile phones. Only birds would be allowed to sing.”

61. “You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.”

62. “I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.”

63. “My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'”

64. “Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.”

65. “We had thousands of people outside Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad. We would wait to get inside to watch a Test at six o'clock in the morning.”

66. “Devin's a drama queen.”

67. “Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.”

68. “It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”

69. “Once you're in the military, she means a lot more to you than just a grandmother. She is the queen. And then you suddenly, it's like start realizing, you know, wow, this is quite a big deal. And then you get goose bumps and then the rest of it.”

70. “The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.”

71. “It was Napoleon who said if you want to understand a man, look at the world as it was when he was 20. When the Queen and the Duke were in their early 20s, it's around 1940. Their values are the values of Britain in 1940; all that is best of Britain in 1940 is exemplified by the Duke.”

72. “As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.”

73. “I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.”

74. “From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.”

75. “I never liked Queen. I can honestly say I hated Queen and everything that they did.”

76. “I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.”

77. “I sort of knew I was a bit of a drama queen. I always threw tantrums, so I knew I wasn't a normal child.”

78. “The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.”

79. “My musical influences are Nicki Minaj, of course. She is the Queen of Rap. She paved the way for a lot of upcoming female artists. Her looks, her hairstyles, music, everything. I love what she's doing.”

80. “If Queen Amezan and Queen Penthesilea could somehow meet in real life, they would recognize each other as sister Amazons. Two tales, two storytellers, two sites far apart in time and place, and yet one common tradition of women who made love and war.”

81. “Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.”

82. “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.”

83. “I'd love to have tea and scones with the Queen; she's my idol.”

84. “These are truly special days we live in - where a clown in a gown can make her very own drag queen revenge-comedy.”

85. “Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.”

86. “It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.”

87. “I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen… I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.”

88. “This crew member has managed to get this picture of me to the Queen who'd said that she loved me in 'The Durrells'! The real life Queen!”

89. “The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.”

90. “I think any black woman is a queen. It's just, do you know it? Do you see it in yourself? Do you recognize it, do you abide by that, do you define yourself as that? Based on who we are and what we've been through and how we survive and where we stand, we are on kind of sacred ground. We stand on the backs of our ancestors.”

91. “Everyone has their own tastes. Some people want to feel like it's Queen onstage, including the dress-up thing, but that's not my style. I do know some people love that and wish I would do it, but I have no interest in that.”

92. “When I was 16, I played Tallulah in 'Bugsy Malone' at the Queen's Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together in Blackheath. It was brilliant being 16 and living in London with my mates.”

93. “I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.”

94. “The Queen has well-informed opinions of many of her bishops and likes those who are straightforward and intelligent. Both she and Prince Philip believe Christianity is as much about forgiveness as morality.”

95. “The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.”

96. “Queen Paola and I will never forget the ties that have grown between the people and us during the course of the years. Thank you for your confidence, tokens of sympathy and support, sometimes even with a little criticism. We always loved you.”

97. “For those of you looking for your action-packed read, check out 'Red Queen' by Victoria Aveyard and 'Vengeance Road' by Erin Bowman. One's a fantasy and one's a Western, but they both feature strong leading ladies and some harrowing twists!”

98. “That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.”

99. “The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe.”

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

101. “Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.”

102. “I was happy to be in England because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I. My mother had every memento you could find on the Queen.”

103. “I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.”

104. “Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.”

105. “I'm the queen of the independent video!”

106. “I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.”

107. “There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.”

108. “I really like how the characters always has to go through some type of long journey that's like a crazy struggle. And these anime shows give women power. She's always the queen or somebody that you cannot beat - I love that.”

109. “Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.”

110. “For all those people who always thought I was nothing more than a drag queen, wait until they see what I agreed to look like in 'Hairspray.'”

111. “I remember when I was a kid and I used to go and see Queen play live. It was like there was Queen the album band, and then Queen the four dudes on stage playing the songs on stage, and it never lacked anything to me when it was just the four dudes playing the big songs.”

112. “I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.”

113. “Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.”

114. “I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it?”

115. “I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I'm a human being.”

116. “I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.”

117. “Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.”

118. “The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.”

119. “Raven was the first drag queen I had ever seen. Her and Detox in L.A. when I was baby. I respect Raven and Detox so much.”

120. “My family is my biggest support system. They played an important role in transforming me from the girl-next-door to a beauty queen.”

121. “At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.”

122. “I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.”

123. “Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.”

124. “I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.”

125. “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.”

126. “When Pakistan beat England at cricket, my Pakistani cousins remind me how English and British I am. When they say, 'You're one of the Queen's advisers,' for them it's, 'Wow - anything's possible in the U.K.'”

127. “Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.”

128. “The thing is, I was always a republican, but I have to say I've become completely obsessed with the Queen.”

129. “On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there's no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn't the prom queen, hottest girl in school.”

130. “I think of myself as the queen of lounging. No lounge queen is complete without lounge clothes and house wigs.”

131. “Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.”

132. “I'm too young to be a king and too committed to be a queen.”

133. “People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one.”

134. “My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.”

135. “I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'”

136. “The ending shot of 'Queen Christina' with Greta Garbo is amazing. She's at the head of the ship, and she's been through so much, and the camera gets so close to her face. That really sticks out for me.”

137. “For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen's head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I didn't realise.”

138. “During the summer of 2000, in the run-up to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 100th birthday, I asked the Duke of Edinburgh if he was hoping to reach 100. 'Good God, no,' he spluttered, 'I can't imagine anything worse. What a ghastly idea.'”

139. “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.”

140. “I wanted to be a poet. I fell in love with poetry around eight years old, but not through literature. Instead, it came through hip-hop lyrics and my obsession with reading liner notes. Queen Latifah's 'Black Reign' is the album that stands out the most.”

141. “After we covered Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now,' Brian May and Roger Taylor sent us a bottle of champagne and asked us if we'd sing it on stage during the 'We Will Rock You' musical on what would have been Freddie Mercury's 60th birthday.”

142. “I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.”

143. “I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater … when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.”

144. “I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.”

145. “People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.”

146. “My mother Naseem Bano who was called the first 'Pari Chehra' or beauty queen of the film industry, had taken me to London after she saw me taking fancy to her ghaghra, lipstick and dance to the tunes of her film songs. For her, academics were more important than films.”

147. “Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.”

148. “The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.”

149. “I have so much respect for the Queen and for Charles, and what the family represents. And yet there's still a conflict about whether we can abolish the class system while also having a Royal family.”

150. “When the Queen says 'well done,' it means so much.”

151. “In the first years of the Queen's reign, the level of adulation - you wouldn't believe it. You really wouldn't.”

152. “The only queen I know is my mum.”

153. “If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.”

154. “There's a difference between being a drag queen on TV where the masses can tune in and watch, and then at a nightclub where you have to be a certain age to get in. There's a different decorum. We're all trying to push boundaries, but also trying to stay in our lane.”

155. “The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.”

156. “My dream match would be 'Queen vs. Queen' Stephanie McMahon.”

157. “Nobody gets a free pass in life, and that's awesomely true for a drag queen or anyone else in the LGBT community. But I like to say, 'Don't be bitter, get better.'”

158. “I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.”

159. “I am not in favour of hierarchies that grant privileges to members who fail to uphold those values - there are plenty of those - but the monarchy is really the Queen, who is of unimpeachable integrity and the longest serving head of state in the world, and who never puts a foot wrong.”

160. “You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself.”

161. “In my head I feel like I'm a female transgender to male but also like a drag queen.”

162. “Queen has always been my favorite band. Freddie is the greatest singer, ever, is the way I look at it. The other thing about Queen for me is they embraced so many different styles.”

163. “I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I'm not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he's one of the best.”

164. “Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother.”

165. “My hubby is such a sneaker king… and I am a stiletto queen! He always wants to see me in sneakers, but I believe I can do anything in heels.”

166. “I'm constantly trying to redefine what being a beauty queen is.”

167. “To the fashion world, a man in a dress will always be camp. But in the drag world, you have specific genres. So for me, for instance, I'm most categorized as a 'look queen.'”

168. “For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.”

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

170. “Ever since Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai made headlines, every other girl in India wants to be a beauty queen. I was no exception.”

171. “I used to go along to the auditions for school plays but I never had the courage to actually audition. I wanted to sing though and was really into Elton John, Rod Stewart and Queen, so I eventually forced myself to sing at Brean Sands Holiday Park in Somerset when I was 14.”

172. “I am proud to be called the Queen of Mean, and I never mince my words - especially when it comes to fat people.”

173. “I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.”

174. “I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.”

175. “I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.”

176. “We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.”

177. “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!”

178. “I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.”

179. “I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.”

180. “Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously.”

181. “Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.”

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

183. “We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.”

184. “The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.”

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

186. “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.”

187. “I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.”

188. “As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.”

189. “Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.”

190. “I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.”

191. “And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.”

192. “As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.”

193. “The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.”

194. “There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.”

195. “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.”

196. “If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?”

197. “I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.”

198. “Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.”

199. “I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.”

200. “What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.”

201. “I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.”

202. “But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.”

203. “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.”

204. “Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.”

205. “Sure, I'd take the responsibility of queen any day.”

206. “I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.”

207. “The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.”

208. “When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.”

209. “We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.”

210. “We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.”

211. “I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.”

212. “Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.”

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

214. “The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.”

215. “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.”

216. “I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.”

217. “The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.”

218. “At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.”

219. “Tampa's crazy… The ladies in Tampa come in all flavors. I felt like I was at Dairy Queen.”

220. “In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.”

221. “Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.”

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

223. “I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.”

224. “In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.”

225. “Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.”

226. “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.”

227. “The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.”

228. “I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.”

229. “I hate it when people call me a teen queen.”

230. “To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.”

231. “Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”

232. “I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.”

233. “I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have.”

234. “There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.”

235. “My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.”

236. “The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave.”

237. “I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.”

238. “Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.”

239. “Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.”

240. “There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.”

241. “I feel like I'm a drag queen.”

242. “I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me.”

243. “I'm not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously… Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.”

244. “Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.”

245. “After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.”

246. “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.”

247. “Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.”

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

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

250. “If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.”

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

252. “I'm a carb queen. I'll always order macaroni and cheese, but I don't want it to be fancy. I want it to be as close to Kraft Services as it can possibly get!”

253. “I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'”

254. “She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.”

255. “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.”

256. “At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls. When the Second World War started we were evacuated, first of all to Ipswich, and then to Aberdare, Queen of the Valleys, in south Wales.”

257. “In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.”

258. “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.”

259. “I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's.”

260. “I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.”

261. “You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.”

262. “The Queen is the ultimate dictator.”

263. “All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.”

264. “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.'”

265. “If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.”

266. “My role as king will be much like my mum's as queen, so long as I remain in tune with the people.”

267. “It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.”

268. “The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.”

269. “I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.”

270. “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.”

271. “Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.”

272. “The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.”

273. “My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.”

274. “There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life; there's a deep respect for her role.”

275. “2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.”

276. “It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.”

277. “Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.”

278. “My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.”

279. “My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.”

280. “Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically.”

281. “We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.”

282. “In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.”

283. “I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.”

284. “I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show.”

285. “I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.”

286. “I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president - I even dated the homecoming queen.”

287. “I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.”

288. “I never thought I'd say the sentence 'It was a real honour' - because that implies that you've done something pretty special. But now I've done that several times. Yesterday I was in Buckingham Palace - I actually met the Queen yesterday and that was an honour. I never thought I'd do something like that.”

289. “I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.”

290. “The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.”

291. “The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.”

292. “'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.”

293. “When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!”

294. “I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.”

295. “Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.”

296. “I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.”

297. “To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.”

298. “'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.' - will.i.am”

299. “Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.”

300. “When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.”

301. “People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.”

302. “I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.”

303. “Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable.”

304. “A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.”

305. “'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was a new experience. I would walk into one of my trailers and it would be like Spanx, a spray-tan gun, and chicken cutlets. I would have hair extensions. It was hilarious. Every day felt like I was turning into an awesome drag queen.”

306. “I have an understanding of Queen and the way Freddie Mercury did his harmonies. I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.”

307. “Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.”

308. “AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time… I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.”

309. “There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.”

310. “I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'”

311. “I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.”

312. “I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.”

313. “It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.”

314. “'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.”

315. “I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.”

316. “The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!”

317. “Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.”

318. “Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.”

319. “I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.”

320. “I consider myself the queen of pugs of New York City. I'm really into my dogs. Massive pugs, massive needlepoint, massive color!”

321. “I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.”

322. “I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.”

323. “Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.”

324. “If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.”

325. “Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.”

326. “Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.”

327. “I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.”

328. “When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.”

329. “I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.”

330. “If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England. She and the Pope are the ultimate clients.”

331. “'Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.' - iO Tillett Wright”

332. “That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because of all the classical theatre you've done. But we can be very snippy about television. It's absolutely the most potent and powerful form of storytelling we have.”

333. “My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.”

334. “My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even approach, but his showmanship, I learned it from videos.”

335. “Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.”

336. “If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.”

337. “I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.”

338. “Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.”

339. “I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours.”

340. “Before every show, I would call my mother and say, 'Mummy, I don't know how I will sing today.' But that would change as soon as I went on stage and would merge with my music. She is my best ally, and I don't want to lose her. Nobody other than her would be concerned if I had eaten or had oiled my hair. She is my queen.”

341. “I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.”

342. “I definitely believe in type casting. If you're a girl with bleach-blonde hair, everyone automatically thinks 'prom queen, cheerleader.' It just happens.”

343. “I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary - I think it's the only way to travel from New York.”

344. “'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.”

345. “If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.”

346. “People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.”

347. “When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.”

348. “I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.”

349. “There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.”

350. “Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.”

351. “I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.”

352. “I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.”

353. “My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.”

354. “I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.”

355. “I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime.”

356. “I live in New York. I have an amazing apartment over there; I have this amazing life over there that's full of glamour. I get treated like a queen over there - and that's one of the reasons I love coming home. It's very grounding.”

357. “Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!”

358. “When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.”

359. “As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White.”

360. “It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.”

361. “You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!”

362. “It's very nice to be asked to anybody's wedding. Particularly if it's the Prince of Wales. I learned a lot from it, which was to end early and get away. I suppose one would have to look back historically and see who other royals had at their weddings. Were there people at Queen Elizabeth's wedding who were common like myself?”

363. “I've met the Queen a couple of times, and she's been delightful. In fact, I often find myself thinking: 'What would the Queen do in this situation? Write a thank-you note? Yes, I'll do that.' She's all about courtesy.”

364. “I love the Queen. I've had a crush on her since I was eight.”

365. “It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching 'Coronation Street.'”

366. “I'm completely anti-establishment; the only thing I like about the Queen are her scarves and her jewels.”

367. “One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.”

368. “I think Johnny Depp could play just about any role - I'd love to see what he would do with the Red Queen!”

369. “I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.”

370. “I'm a classic stress-eater, so I know a lot about how eating can become a way of hiding from what's really wrong. I escape into food. But some people escape into books. Some into relationships that might not be good for them. The three main characters in 'The Sugar Queen' struggle with each of these comforts-turned-crutches.”

371. “It was surreal to think the Queen of England not only knew who I was but thought enough of what I do to give me an award.”

372. “I enjoy the TV series 'Dexter,' where there's a reason for every kill. Quentin Tarantino is a favourite, and a 'Kill Bill' action-packed movie would be up my street. I'd love to be India's first scream queen!”

373. “I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android… I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic… like a self-absorbed ice queen.”

374. “I cannot wait to come back to Glasgow. I know the place like the back of my hand. In fact, one of the jobs I had as a student was in Cineworld. And I was always at gigs in King Tut's, Nice 'n' Sleazy's and the Barras. I played Ultimate Frisbee down on Glasgow Green and pulled pints in O'Neill's on Queen Street.”

375. “Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.”

376. “'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.”

377. “I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others.”

378. “My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it's a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training.”

379. “My biggest style inspirations come from the '90s. I'm really inspired by TLC, Janet Jackson, and designers like Jeremy Scott. I'm hugely inspired by Club Kids from New York back in the '90s. I'm inspired by the drag queen scene. Combat boots and the torn off jeans and a baggy shirt - I love that look.”

380. “I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.”

381. “My father, a captain in the 5th Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, landed in Normandy the day after D-Day.”

382. “I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.”

383. “It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'”

384. “I speak for all Malaysians in expressing my admiration for the Queen and the grace, poise and selflessness with which she has carried out her duties during her long reign. She represents the very best of British traits: dignity, resilience and hard work.”

385. “There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.”

386. “In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand.”

387. “The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.”

388. “I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.”

389. “Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.”

390. “I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.”

391. “I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.”

392. “I have an amazing 1930s dress I picked up in Toronto at Cabaret on Queen West. It's a red knee-length tea dress, and it's absolutely beautiful. It makes me happy every time I put it on.”

393. “I'm never sure how to rank these things, but I will say that it has been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid to play for the Queen of England. Preferably in the throne room.”

394. “Side note, I was Prom Prince. My friend and I campaigned to be Prom King and Queen, and we got the rest of the non-popular people in the school to vote for us. We didn't win, but we got Prince and Princess.”

395. “I don't know if it's shocking, but I'm the world's biggest klutz. I have been dancing since I was 3, and I have modeled, and I have good balance, but you wouldn't know it. Hanging out with me, I do everything from spill food on myself to trip up stairs. I'm the queen of that, most definitely.”

396. “My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.”

397. “Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.”

398. “I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.”

399. “At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.”

400. “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.”

401. “I have decided now that my mother should be the GPS woman, don't you think? That would be fantastic: 'Make a left in 11 miles. Get over now - I want you to be prepared. Turn right on Elm Street, I want to see if Myrna Rosenblatt is still alive. Make your second left by the Dairy Queen. Don't go in, they're anti-Semitic.'”

402. “'Queen of Hearts' is one I'm really proud of because I worked so hard on it, and then I was told it wasn't good enough to be included on an Allman Brothers album. That directly led me to go into the studio and cut 'Laid Back,' my first solo release. So 'Queen of Hearts' is special to me.”

403. “I bought a racehorse, Tropical Saint, that belonged to the Queen Mother. I used to go down to Banbury and watch him train, but during a televised race, his jockey pulled up and said there was something wrong. They put him in the grass to try and settle him but found him dead in the field.”

404. “Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie.”

405. “Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds.”

406. “Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.”

407. “In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made 'Queen Margot.'”

408. “I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.”

409. “I'm really into old school music when hip-hop first came out with Common, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, and Run DMC. I'm really into that! Hip-hop these days isn't the same and doesn't have the same sound anymore. I'd rather listen to the old school hip-hop.”

410. “Telugu-Tamil producer Thyagarajan has bought the South Indian language rights for two Hindi hit films, Vikas Behl's 'Queen' and Neeraj Pandey's 'Special 26.' He wants me to play Akshay Kumar's role in the Telugu version of 'Special 26.' Akshay and I even look similar, physique-wise.”

411. “Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.”

412. “Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.”

413. “Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.”

414. “I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'”

415. “I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony.”

416. “The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.”

417. “I have been overwhelmed by the response to 'The Queen of Zombie Hearts.'”

418. “I always think of young Hollywood as its own little high school. There are the girls who have been working for a while that are kind of like the Queen Bees and the new kids at 'school' just starting out.”

419. “I can't pick a favorite animal; I love so many! But I guess if I have to choose, I pick bees! There's this brilliant documentary called 'Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?' I think it's important for people to be educated about bees - they pollinate almost all the food we eat. They are amazing!”

420. “I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.”

421. “I worked in IT, which is all boys, and I was the queen of the boys. That's what I did. I was the one who knew where the paper towels were, which was very important. And I organized happy hours and things like that.”

422. “There are projects I've done, such as 'Queen,' where I played Halle Berry and Danny Glover's son, where I'm so extremely proud of the work that I did that I will sit down and watch that any time.”

423. “In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.”

424. “I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory.”

425. “The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.”

426. “In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books.”

427. “A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.”

428. “Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?”

429. “Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.”

430. “I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.”

431. “I have a friend who calls me the queen of the nightmares because I've always had really bad nightmares. I keep a notebook by the side of my bed, so I'll wake up in the night from a bad dream, and my heart's pounding, and I'm really scared, but I write it down, and sometimes I get ideas for books that way.”

432. “To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him.”

433. “I remember, my mom, she's lived in Spain for about thirty years, and we were playing the Royal Albert Hall, and she was with some friends from New York. Morrissey came out with the sign 'The Queen is Dead,' and my mom's friends are like, 'Oh my God.' They took it literally.”

434. “I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go.”

435. “If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.”

436. “V. S. Pritchett was one of the most admired, fun, talked-about writers of the 20th century: he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his work with prose. He was born in 1900, wrote till he died in 1997, and has been tidily forgotten ever since. This is a real shame.”

437. “I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.”

438. “I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.”

439. “High school is when I started to get my sense of fashion together. My queen was Candice Swanepoel, who is a friend of mine now, which is kind of funny, but in high school, I was obsessed. I love her street style: she is always in cool boyfriend jeans, boots, and an awesome coat, which is very much like what I wear.”

440. “My mom choreographed the top Olympians; she's really the queen of ice in her world, so I kind of get my directorial bug from her because she's really good at telling people what to do!”

441. “In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.”

442. “Protestants in France are under intolerable despotism. Although open persecution does not now exist, yet it depends upon the whim of the king, queen, parliament, or any of the ministry.”

443. “Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra.”

444. “I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.”

445. “Icy and earthy, Helen Mirren is a rare, regal presence in a movie age that values the plebeian over the patrician and mass over class. Lauded with an Oscar and an Emmy for playing both Queen Elizabeths, Mirren has matched her cool aristocracy with a boldness of performance and display.”

446. “Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'”

447. “When I think about people like Queen Latifah, who literally found a script for me to star in, that's what I want to be for somebody. When you look at someone like Queen Latifah, or you think about the Will Smiths, those people are multifaceted. They do so many different things, but most important, they give back.”

448. “Queen Latifah has been a huge part of my career. She has been a huge, huge part of my career since the very beginning.”

449. “I wrote a lot of 'Red Queen' wrapped in a blanket, cramped up while watching the snow come down.”

450. “So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn't get to world-build enough. I don't think I did enough work explaining how the world came to be, and while I'm planning to go more into it, I'm a greedy writer, and I'm always going to wish I had more room to delve into the complexities of a fantasy realm.”

451. “I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.”

452. “I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.”

453. “I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.”

454. “Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and talks like someone who majored in misogyny at some bogus, backwoods, Bible-banging tent school.”

455. “I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.”

456. “The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy.”

457. “The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women 'Aunties' rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren't entirely shut out from this system - in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government - but it's strictly delimited.”

458. “I get called Pink quite a lot. The Pink of the Action Sport World. Or Queen of the Dirt - some call me that.”

459. “The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.”

460. “I know who Queen Elizabeth represents. I know she's the head of the British state. I know she has all sorts of titles in relation to different regiments in the British army. She knows my history. She knows I was a member of the IRA. She knows I was in conflict with her soldiers, yet both of us were prepared to rise above all of that.”

461. “The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.”

462. “In my film 'Queen', there was a funny moment with the bra. My director called and said they are blurring the bra. They said it is vulgar. Our director was furious about it. We are artistes… We see props as they are. A woman's bra is not a danger to the society.”

463. “I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.”

464. “Initially, I wanted to do films with A-list actors when I was struggling. I was hoping that I could also get that platform where I'm launched with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Aamir Khan… and with them my career could also start, but it didn't happen. And then came 'Queen.'”

465. “When The Queen invited the Olympians to the Palace, I was first in line to speak to her. She said she watched the Games and how happy she was, how impressed she was with the boxing. She told me she'd watched my fight and enjoyed it. I didn't realise the effect I'd had on the whole country.”

466. “The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.”

467. “The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.”

468. “I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'”

469. “'Living Single' was on in early 1990s - the show about Queen Latifah living with a bunch of friends. And then there's 'Friends,' and that's called the groundbreaking show about unmarried adults living in New York!”

470. “It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'”

471. “One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.”

472. “I knew I wanted the parties in 'The Queen of the Night' to be convincing, beautiful, and also dramatic: situations where significant things happened on a scale that was both grand and intimate. There were several texts that helped me think about how to do this, and one of the most important ones was Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Villette.'”

473. “In some ways, in 'The Queen of the Night,' I'm writing about some of the experience that I had with 'Edinburgh' where I was entirely unable to speak about what had happened to me as a child, but I could read from the novel.”

474. “I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.”

475. “I have very sensitive skin, and so, whenever I can, I want to give it a rest. I'm, like, the moisturizing queen.”

476. “Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.”

477. “I'm a bit like the Queen in that I don't carry much cash.”

478. “'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.”

479. “Seeing that flag means so much: I am inspired by my Queen, my country.”

480. “Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.”

481. “I literally got a private invite for lunch with the Queen. There was just 10 of us. And I was absolutely petrified because you can't take anyone with you, and no other sportspeople were there. There was the head of the military, and then the Queen sat next to me.”

482. “The first I bought were records. I don't know which was first, but I feel like it was the same day. It was 'The Muppet Show' soundtrack and Queen's first album, because it was the only one my brother didn't have.”

483. “The real Amazons were long believed to be purely imaginary. They were the mythical warrior women who were the archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Every Greek hero or champion, from Hercules to Theseus and Achilles, had to prove his mettle by fighting a powerful warrior queen.”

484. “I can only appreciate the kind of work that goes into being a top drag queen. Ru Paul looks just astonishing as a woman. And he's got this fantastic turn of phrase. I find him hilarious.”

485. “I guess my favourite Disney film was 'Snow White,' which has a really dark moment when the evil queen turns into a witch and makes the poison apple. It was terrifying in the same way 'Maleficent' is.”

486. “My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.”

487. “People say how come I'm from Scotland yet I sound like the Queen?! I went to boarding school in Somerset, which has probably got something to do with it.”

488. “You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.”

489. “The film itself should interact with the audience. In the case of 'Queen of Katwe', people are laughing, sobbing and dancing. I am taking them on a ride… It is not like I am asking them for handouts.”

490. “'Queen of Katwe' is an absolutely true story. And it's wonderful. But it's not about saviors. Your only savior is yourself - but yourself with your community. It's never alone. You have to have someone who believes in you.”

491. “I'm a Republican, but I like the Queen. Like everyone else, I'm sentimental about the Queen.”

492. “When I was growing up in Ossining, N.Y., playing pool with the guys, the thought that any one of us might become an actor was as far-fetched as being knighted by the queen of England.”

493. “The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.”

494. “I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.”

495. “Because I have moderated two general election debates - in 2004 and 2008 - I know better than to carp from the sidelines. I am confident in my accomplishment of having had Queen Latifah portray me on 'Saturday Night Live' both years.”

496. “I thought, 'If I can't be prom queen, I can dance 'Les Sylphide.'”

497. “Prime ministers come and go, but so long as he or she lives, the sovereign remains, receiving and reading all state papers and meeting once a week with the prime minister to advise, enquire, and comment - sometimes sharply, as was the case with Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs. Thatcher - on affairs of state.”

498. “I read a lot about her. I read a lot of bios. I read bios about the royal family; I read this little novella called 'The Uncommon Reader,' which is a fiction: it's about Queen Elizabeth going on this library bus and choosing books and reading them, but it's so sweet.”

499. “The Queen is not supposed to have a favourite or prefer anything. From a very young age, they are taught that if you fall down, you don't make a face; you keep your emotions under control, and you don't let other people know what you're feeling. That's a very different kind of way of thinking from how I was brought up.”

500. “Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, 'Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.'”

501. “My dad was the cause of me being in show business. He was not only in poetry but in acting a bit. He was Mordecai in the play 'A Dream of Queen Esther.'”

502. “I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.”

503. “When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.”

504. “I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.”

505. “I am excited to work with Vikas. Whenever I tell people that I am doing a film with director of 'Queen,' they are like, 'Wow, good for you.' That makes me feel really good, and I feel fortunate to be the chosen one.”

506. “Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.”

507. “Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.”

508. “They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.”

509. “It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'”

510. “I love Viola Davis. I call her 'Queen.' I think she's phenomenal. She's so raw and so bold. When I first saw her was in 'Doubt,' and she just changed everything for me. Her performance was unlike anything I had ever seen before, and I think she's phenomenal.”

511. “Feminists are like the Borg from 'Star Trek.' They don't know anything about other groups beyond the fact that they need to be assimilated into a hivemind that mindlessly follows the orders of a Queen.”

512. “Deep down, I'm a small-town girl who has it drilled in her DNA to grow up, marry, have kids, settle down. Maybe I will knock the same theory in my kids' heads, too. I'm also liberal, a political enthusiast, a bookworm, and the least bit ambitious to pull off a soap drama queen act.”

513. “I'm not a camp, throwaway queen; I'm not in Neverland. I'm not Jennifer Lopez with three people to pluck my eyebrows. I've made myself what I want to be - not everybody's cup of tea. And people wanna have a look at me. I fully accept that. People have always wanted to have a look at me.”

514. “You'd never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for another thing, it's just like a tacky drag queen.”

515. “When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.”

516. “I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.”

517. “I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.”

518. “I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.”

519. “In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I don't know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don't know how that would end up.”

520. “A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.”

521. “I've said it before: If Queen had died and reincarnated as one person, it would be Devin Townsend.”

522. “For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.”

523. “I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.”

524. “I thought she was just the Queen and he was Prince Philip, and that was just who they were, without thinking about them as a mother or a father or daughter.”

525. “The Queen has stayed with me in the sense that she lets people come to her. She doesn't feel like she has to go out. I mean, she doesn't have to anyway because of her rank and her position, but she doesn't have to overdo it.”

526. “I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.”

527. “There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret her circumstances.”

528. “In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.”

529. “As an Englishwoman, you pick up a lot through osmosis. I've been watching the Queen all my life. But, yes, I did watch news footage and was able to pick a couple of little tics. For instance, she plays with her hands a lot and has a certain way of holding them on her lap when she's in public.”

530. “Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the complicated 'Queen Ravenna', and Stewart's performance as 'Snow White', the fairest of them all, in her first action-heroine role, kept her literally in constant motion.”

531. “As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and raised in Italy, and my dad was born in Canada and moved back and forth between Canada and Italy, so they would also listen to all the big Italian stars like Eros Ramazzotti, Gigi D'Alessio, Tiziano Ferro, Laura Pausini.”

532. “If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.”

533. “There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.”

534. “Growing up, I was a self-loathing Igor who carried the queen's books. My job was to be the sarcastic sherpa, quietly providing the farce and adoration, then becoming part of the wall when cued.”

535. “How does a queen bee behave? However she wants to. But please don't wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine - do it yourself.”

536. “The Queen was really thrilled that we'd had a little girl, and when we came back here to Kensington, she was one of her first visitors.”

537. “I was not a queen bee, ever.”

538. “Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?”

539. “I would love to grab roles like the ones my mom did in 'Oppol' or the role Kangana Ranaut played in 'Queen.'”

540. “That's acting for you. 'White Queen' has English playing Welsh and vice versa.”

541. “My senior project was about solid-waste management. They nicknamed me 'Trash Queen'.”

542. “I wanted a maternity dress, but I couldn't find anything I liked. Everything was abominable. So I made one. Then I made a pullover. 'Elle' put it on the cover. Then WWD elected me the Queen of Knitwear.”

543. “I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made.”

544. “I invented a sweater so small, so close to the body, that Women's Wear Daily nicknamed it 'The Poor Boy Sweater' and consecrated me queen of knitwear.”

545. “My career got off to a very shaky start when I dropped out of school at the age of 18. Despite my lack of academic credentials, I got a job as a fashion assistant at 'Harper's & Queen.'”

546. “I really love the movies of Katherine Hepburn, movies like 'The African Queen.' I love 'Midnight Run' and I suppose, to pick something out of a different genre, I love 'Aliens.'”

547. “I'm a research queen.”

548. “People who call me reality queen or whatever don't help me run my house. If I get a good project, I'll definitely pick it up because today I'm famous; tomorrow, maybe I'd be gone.”

549. “Be it 'Jhalak,' 'Dance India Dance' or 'Nach Baliye,' I give all the credit to Ekta Kapoor as, just because of her, I am here. She has an eye to identify the real talent. Instead, I would say she knows how to make things work for her. She is not simply called the queen of Indian Television: she is the tigress of TV, I would say.”

550. “I've never wanted to be an actress. I came into the industry to be a filmmaker, but let us say fate had other plans for me. I don't want to be the next glamour queen.”

551. “I love the royal family. I even got up in the middle of the night to watch Kate and William's wedding. And I never miss the Queen's speech on Christmas Day. I feel it's my duty as an English-born woman to watch.”

552. “I'm still surprised when people tell me I look like a queen.”

553. “I really, really liked shooting and doing the scene with Emilia Clarke and Peter Dinklage at the end of 'Winds of Winter,' when she gives him the Hand of the Queen. Because we shot it very simply. We felt like we had managed to do something that was visual but really was a very intimate scene between two people.”

554. “I'm an icon. I'm the Queen of Limerick.”

555. “'Beauty Queen' will always be a favourite because I think it's a really tight play, and when it's done right, there is a sadness to it that I love.”

556. “I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful.”

557. “I grew up with social media. I am the boomerang queen. I enjoy this. I live this. The day I don't is the day I need to resign.”

558. “Queen's is one of my favourite tournaments of the year.”

559. “I insist to this day that if you read the screenplay to 'The Queen,' it leaves you in no doubt that we considered her an isolated, out-of-touch, cold, emotionally inaccessible, overprivileged, deluded woman, heading an institution that should immediately be dismantled in any free and fair society.”

560. “When I started writing the screenplay for 'The Queen,' about the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, both Stephen Frears, the director, and Andy Harries, the producer, begged me not to put Tony Blair in it.”

561. “The film 'The Queen' came about with a producer saying to me that he wanted me to write about the circumstances behind Diana's death. I think he was hoping that I would come up with some journalistic scoop that would identify an MI5 covert plot.”

562. “I have always cited the decision by director Stephen Frears to shoot 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' before my script of 'The Queen' as the reason for my taking the plunge as a playwright.”

563. “When you stop to take a minute and look at Queen Latifah's career, she came out of the box right. You know, 'Ladies First!' And she's been consistent with that message of female self-empowerment. She really has!”

564. “There was a time when we had a nice little run: Eve, Lil' Kim, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Remy Ma, Da Brat - it goes on. But what I noticed is that a lot of talented females in hip-hop came out of a male camp.”

565. “One thing I've always loved and rated me dad for is that, because of him, I've never seen the Queen's Christmas speech.”

566. “For blue eyes, use warm browns, peaches, and yellows to compliment the eyes. Brown and hazel eyes sparkle in blue and purple shades, which flatters the orange undertone of brown eyes. Green eyes stand out in burgundy and plum shades like CoverGirl Queen Collection Vivid Impact Eyeliner in Cabernet.”

567. “I love Kim Chi the drag queen from 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' but I'm not sure about the food.”

568. “I'm the makeover queen. I love to do makeovers on people.”

569. “A queen does not wear clothes off the runways.”

570. “I'm queen of mentorship.”

571. “Greg Rucka always writes lovely, believable female characters in books like 'Whiteout,' 'Queen and Country,' and 'Lazarus.' I am a fan of Kelly Sue DeConnick, who does a wonderful female lead in 'Captain Marvel.' And DC's 'Batwoman' is currently the only book at the Big Two with a lesbian solo lead character, and it's always outstanding.”

572. “I think that fashion, in general, is a world of super-heightened glamour, and when you talk about super-heightened glamour, the first thing that comes to mind is a drag queen.”

573. “I was Sweater Queen at Bowling Green State University. Oh, that's a laugh, isn't it?”

574. “Solitary pursuits like playing video games and skateboarding can't compete with the thrill of mobbing a teammate as he scores the winning run - nor do they end with a postgame trip to Dairy Queen.”

575. “Kenya has deep resonances for the royals: it was here, after all, that the young Princess Elizabeth heard of the death of her father, George VI. From that moment, she was Queen.”

576. “The fact is, Charles and Diana's marriage was a train smash in many ways, and, as Camilla will one day be Queen, it's important for the public to understand she's not some terrible woman.”

577. “When Sir Michael Peat arrived from Buckingham Palace in 2002 to take up the job as Prince Charles's private secretary, he came with a clear agenda. His instructions from the Queen were to sever Charles's relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles because it was a mess and was detracting from his work.”

578. “I met Tupac through Queen Latifah in New York at this party that we were at, at a place downtown called Big City Diner.”

579. “I was a natural drama queen when I was younger. I was always doing impersonations and showing off.”

580. “It's going to be very, very different from 'The White Queen.' Rather than it being a follow-up, I think 'The White Princess' is definitely a standalone show.”

581. “I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.”

582. “I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also sent it to the Queen of England.”

583. “Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart.”

584. “I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.”

585. “I am the queen of exercise variety.”

586. “If you really want to get over someone or something in your life, I suggest you throw on some Ivy Queen. She will have you feeling extra bossy.”

587. “Hire me for the next picture. I don't have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That's all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It's a part of selling the film.”

588. “As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the Queen feels she cannot be seen to smile in church - and her natural reaction is to combat mirth by putting on a stern face.”

589. “Prince Charles was once obsessed with a particular beauty, Anna Wallace, and couldn't understand why she walked out on him after he spent the evening dancing with Camilla at the Queen Mother's 80th birthday party.”

590. “When Queen Victoria became Britain's longest ruling monarch in September 1896, ousting George III, church bells rang throughout the country, and beacons blazed on hilltops.”

591. “The Queen rarely loses her temper, but when she does, she brooks no argument.”

592. “The Middletons and the Windsors might seem at first glance to be worlds apart. Kate certainly shows no sign of adopting the horsey, doggy lifestyle beloved of her grandmother-in-law. But the Queen admires how well Kate has embraced royal life, combining it cheerfully with duty and motherhood.”

593. “Even as she approaches 90, the Queen is sometimes glimpsed with her headscarf tied firmly under her chin riding her favourite hack, Emma - one of the fell ponies she breeds.”

594. “When Lady Diana Spencer first visited Balmoral, aged 19, she charmed all the Royals and the Queen especially.”

595. “The Queen made a great fuss of her future daughter-in-law, trying to demonstrate that she was interested in Diana for her personal qualities and not just for what she represented, as the wife of the heir to the throne.”

596. “Instead of trying to be the queen of cool, it feels like more of an achievement to work with mainstream brands and reach as many people as possible. It's more unexpected for someone like me.”

597. “I was prom queen, and the year before, I was prom king. It was kind of the same; you just got a differently shaped crown.”

598. “Sometimes I look at Helen Mirren on stage and think, 'You really are the Queen.' You see people bowing to her at the stage door!”

599. “There definitely has been this kind of Hollywood swing back from the pendulum of, 'OK, we're gonna do gay people; we're gonna do queens.' And then it's like, 'No, no, no queens. Queen is too much.'”

600. “The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia Fraser, the French accused every foreign queen of saying it, beginning in 1670 with the wife of Louis XIV, Marie Theresa.”

601. “Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. She was intelligent and artistic but devoid of the ambition or calculation required to survive in the fetid atmosphere of the French court. In many ways, her character was not unlike that of Mary, Queen of Scots.”

602. “The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist's portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.”

603. “Milk Bar is a quirky American bakery, where the original inspiration is the humble beginnings of American-style baked goods and loving trips to Dairy Queen.”

604. “I can't dance to save my life, really - proper, proper dad dancing - but I was once at a wrap party for a show, and at the end of the night, they still hadn't played 'Dancing Queen'. So we extended the wrap party for 40 minutes and played 'Dancing Queen' 11 times in a row.”

605. “The links between the British and the Dutch royal families are strong - Queen Beatrix's grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina, was evacuated to Britain during the Second World War. But that doesn't mean they share the same attitudes.”

606. “I do feel sorry for the Prince of Wales, waiting and waiting, while his mother looks better and better. She's not staying on because of any concern about his abilities as a king. The Queen simply feels she must do her duty, and she's never even contemplated abdication.”

607. “I think the Queen enjoyed my book on her father, George VI.”

608. “Ambiguity and the horror of possibility play a part in so many of my favorite horror stories: Shirley Jackson's 'We Will Always Live in the Castle,' Mark Danielewski's 'House of Leaves,' Victor LaValle's 'Big Machine,' Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' Stewart O'Nan's 'The Speed Queen,' and so many more.”

609. “Well… I don't think everyone can actually be a drag queen, but I think everyone should investigate drag.”

610. “Being a drag queen out on the subway or out on the street is still not the most safe thing you can be doing.”

611. “My first impression of Jane Fonda was she is a queen. She is royalty. She walks into the room - any room - and has this presence about her that demands respect.”

612. “I'm a pretty early riser, so I'm sort of the queen of five A.M. I love getting up early. It's how I've written most of my books - that hour and a half before my kids are up.”

613. “I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together.”

614. “After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.”

615. “I didn't 'join' Queen. We played together and found a strong connection, did a TV show, and carried on - then I suddenly realised I'd been with these guys for four years. If I'd been called up and asked to join, I would have said no.”

616. “When we did 'Chicago' and we announced Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, and Queen Latifah, everybody went crazy and said, 'What are they doing? What are they thinking?' And, now, you look at the movie, and you see that we chose the people that we wanted for that movie, and we were so proud of all of them.”

617. “Basically, we had the idea of doing this production of 'Steel Magnolias,' and we spoke to Queen Latifah about it, and she got excited.”

618. “Weird Al was something that kids would listen to. It's funny, super funny, smart. It's just kind of jokey. I remember hearing 'Smells Like Nirvana' before hearing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' That's how it really worked. I think it's just such a cool thing how he introduced us to so many cool bands. Even Queen - 'Another One Rides the Bus.'”

619. “Just in my experience as a drag queen, I've been able to connect with queer people around the world - and to see them connecting with each other over a shared love of drag!”

620. “At the end of the day, I just love drag so much that it's not enough for me to be a successful drag queen. I want to do right by my drag community as a whole… creating opportunities for other performers, documenting and uplifting amazing drag, and generally just contributing a lot of love and respect to our fabulous little world!”

621. “I've loved the RuPaul model of drag, where you're an amazing drag queen, you're a smart and savvy business person, and you use those together to keep drag at the forefront of what people are talking about.”

622. “I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.”

623. “I guess drag queens, by nature, have to do everything. When you start being a drag queen, you're grabbing the microphone, hosting the shows. Then, you're setting the microphone down and doing the number. You're spending the day before doing your wigs and sewing your costumes. You're doing everything.”

624. “When someone says 'Yasss queen!' to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You'll never hear from me again.”

625. “Hedwig' was the first audition my agent ever sent me on. I still have the slip of paper where I wrote down the appointment. I wrote down, 'Headwitch and the Angry Itch. Yitzhak. Croatian ex-drag queen billed as the last Jewess of the Balkans Krystal Nacht.”

626. “We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.”

627. “What was Freddie like then? Alongside the showman, he was a rather shy introvert. But if the attention was focused on him, he was a natural star, as we all saw after we put Queen together. Week by week, we saw him grow into this character, Freddie Mercury.”

628. “We used to rehearse in unused lecture halls at Imperial and recorded our first album, 'Queen,' in 1971 while I was studying for my biology finals - it is amazing I passed.”

629. “Of the Queen tributes, some of them are very funny, and some of them are really not funny at all. The terrible ones are cheesy and pantolike, more about dressing up in a Brian May wig and a Freddie Mercury moustache, and what they're missing out is the fact that the music is quite complicated and actually not easy to perform.”

630. “Freddie was very much able to ride the neutral wave. We all respected his views because he was such a great songwriter. It was his idea that we share all the credits. It was decided all the songs would be attributed equally to Queen. That immediately got rid of the arguments. That was a fantastic, democratic notion.”

631. “If people are so obsessed with Freddie that they can't bear to see Queen without him, they should stay home and listen to the records.”

632. “We thought Queen were quite tongue in cheek.”

633. “I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, 'Right, that's the end of the band.' But the band just didn't seem to die.”

634. “Someone said to me a long time ago, 'You're a drag queen,' and at the time I was a little like… hello? But then I realized over the years that I actually am.”

635. “I found my style in my aunt's attic. She hoarded all her '60s clothes there, along with the tiaras she'd won as a beauty queen, and I'd steal her wedding dress to wear around town.”

636. “I think it's an oversimplification of somebody's worth to 'cancel' them. We're so quick to cancel but also so quick to lift somebody up as 'the queen,' 'the mom,' 'the dad,' 'the god.'”

637. “I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee, in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Everybody thought it was the missing key to Dee's interest in magic. Of course, it wasn't really lost. It was there, in the catalog.”

638. “You can't say the word 'queen' without a little bit of 'drama' in front of it, right? It comes with the territory. Throwing shade and all that is part of the gig, but it should all kind of be in fun at the end of the day. When you start turning down that dark road where there's no light? Sometimes you put the car in park.”

639. “I have apparently become a sequel queen because of films 'Raaz: Reboot,' 'Guest-Iin-London,' 'Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se' and 'Housefull 4.'”

640. “When I started wrestling and then turned into the Evil Queen, I created this character who I needed in my personal life. This woman who is strong, intelligent, confident, empowering. That's what I needed in my personal life.”

641. “When I came up with the Alexa Bliss character, I wanted to be the girl that everyone knew. There was always that girl in high school who was mean to everybody. She was mean and rude, but everyone still voted for her to be homecoming queen. That girl. And I wanted to portray that girl.”

642. “A film like 'Kai Po Che!', 'Queen', 'Behen Hogi Teri' and 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' are not really independent films.”

643. “Telugu cinema can really spoil you. They treat you like a queen. As soon as you get down from your van, they will all stand up, and they won't sit till you have passed by. I love that attention and miss that.”

644. “The requirement upon the sovereign to 'advise, encourage, and warn' means that the Queen must be well informed. The weekly audience with the Prime Minister is not to discuss the weather but to talk about the most pressing problems facing the nation. An ill-informed monarch cannot do that and would fail in a key constitutional task.”

645. “There is a drama queen in me, as I love acting, and I used to stand in front of the mirror and act since my childhood.”

646. “Edge was part of my fascination with KISS and Cheap Trick and Queen, mixed with wrestling.”

647. “In no way are King Booker and Queen Sharmell the power couple in WWE.”

648. “I don't like music that much… I put on the TV. But I often play things like fast-tempo disco or Queen. I've liked those since way back when.”

649. “It is a distinct and an honor to work with the august Regina King. I would call her Queen King. This woman is one of our treasures. She's an actor's actor. She has craft to burn. She's a craftsman who knows what she is doing, and she's got soul.”

650. “I have watched every episode of 'RuPaul's Drag Race'… I know a bizarre amount of drag queens now. And it's weird because one of the guys that drives my tour bus in America drove the drag queen show before me, and I used to just sit there and hear all the stories so I could go tell my girlfriend because I knew what a big fan she was.”

651. “They respect rappers in the U.S., but in England, it's the Queen's country. She'll forever be putting out the message on these BBC networks that there's no hood: it's tea and red phoneboxes.”

652. “I could sit here and say, 'What would have happened if I hadn't made that crazy television show, if I hadn't made those crazy movies?' Well, I'd be back in Canada working at Dairy Queen.”

653. “Even though my label is that of a beauty queen, I'm not going to limit myself to that, just because that's my title.”

654. “Being a beauty queen was never on my radar.”

655. “I don't think that your height affects how good of a spokesperson, how well you can be, how well you can communicate your ideas as a beauty queen or as a public figure.”

656. “All the girls over there in Ireland are well versed in American country music. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline are like king and queen over there.”

657. “My personal dressing is inspired by my mood and mindset. I can jump from a girl-next-door to runway queen. I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans kind of a woman. But I also enjoy the red carpet look.”

658. “'Queen' is an interesting film, and I have always been motivated by roles that help alleviate women empowerment in some form.”

659. “My team or I didn't enjoy any administrative authority in the creative role play for the Telugu version of 'Queen.'”

660. “For sheer creativity and totality of involvement, 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' with HTV in Bristol was an amazing show to work on, but I think the 'Rolf on Art' series, culminating in the painting of the Queen's portrait to celebrate her 80th birthday, just nudges into the favourite spot.”

661. “Being part of the Queen story and knowing what Freddie Mercury went through before he died of AIDS has really shown me how far we've come in fighting this disease.”

662. “Of course I always knew 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' and all those. But my real introduction to Queen the band and knowing who they were was the movie 'Wayne's World' like a lot of people in my generation.”

663. “People would come up to me, saying, 'You sound a lot like the lead singer from Queen.' I started wondering, 'Who is this guy making me sound so unoriginal?'”

664. “I liken the Queen thing to being in a worship service. Everyone comes having grown up with this music. It's in their blood, in their souls. Every night, it's always a huge standing ovation.”

665. “The Ultimate Queen Celebration is a little bit different. I take liberties with the amount of songs in the set that aren't necessarily Queen songs. I take some freedoms with The Ultimate Queen Celebration that I can't really do with The Queen Extravaganza.”

666. “My favorite thing about the Ultimate Queen Celebration is that we're not afraid to explore a non-traditional Queen set list.”

667. “No band has two hours' worth of greatest hits, but Queen comes close.”

668. “Queen had incredible songwriters.”

669. “Madonna is my absolute queen - as a performer, there's no one better than her.”

670. “Mel B is Queen Bee. I love her.”

671. “Lauryn Hill. I admire her bravery and her strength. Hands down to the queen.”

672. “I am a drama queen!”

673. “Growing up, I listened to a lot of Queen and Lauryn Hill because of my dad. Those are songs that have messages.”

674. “People regularly practice playing a sport like golf or basketball - but few people think about 'practicing being successful.' I had practiced meeting the Queen of England - what I would wear, how I would stand, the handshake - so when I did meet her, I was comfortable - for I had practiced the moment for years.”

675. “I love Orla Guerin - she's my queen… when I watch her on the news, I just can't believe how brave she is.”

676. “I like to dribble to Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust.'”

677. “I knew of Queen, and I knew of Freddie, but I didn't know who the rest of the band were. I became friends with Freddie first; then I got to know the others.”

678. “I was invited to see Queen at Wembley - I think it was the last tour they did, and then afterwards, they had a huge party, which I was invited to - it was all thanks to EastEnders.”

679. “I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.”

680. “I believe the Australian people have an affection for the Queen, and so they should have.”

681. “When I started 'Rent,' I already had an idea of how I was going to portray Angel, simply because of who I was at that moment. Everyone always perceived her as a drag queen, but the reality of the matter is that I truly believe she was a trans woman.”

682. “It was really nice working with Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger.”

683. “In 'Queen,' songs were the part of events happening in the story, and that is where we enjoy music. We dance at weddings, we lip sync at bars and discos, and there are special moments in life which need background music. It should be depicted in films in the same way.”

684. “My lowest point came when I shifted to Mumbai in 1993. Nothing was happening. This is right after I did 'Bandit Queen.' I had no way to tell people that I know my job. There was no casting department here. All the commercial films that were happening in those days did not have any place for me.”

685. “Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.”

686. “I grew up obsessively collecting Queen T-shirts and concert posters and rare U.K. imports of their CDs.”

687. “Anyone who grew up with me knows that Queen is my favorite band of all time.”

688. “I have full confidence that the Sequel Queen is a tag that's going to stick… And I will be loving it!”

689. “The danger of paired flops is directly related to how high the pair is: there's less risk in a flop like 2-2-7 than Q-Q-8. Why? Because most players will fold a hand that contains a deuce but will play hands that contain a queen like A-Q, K-Q, Q-J, or Q-10.”

690. “I used to go to Dairy Queen all the time. It always brings back a little bit of memories. As kids, we always used to go get ice cream.”

691. “If you're let go from Celtic, the club you support, and go to Queen's Park, people think it's a disaster. I don't think I cried, but I was very upset. As a young boy, your dream has been taken away. But I had good people around me, and it was probably the best thing that happened.”

692. “My first year at Queen's Park, I just wasn't good enough, but that tough period shaped me.”

693. “I'm not a drama queen.”

694. “King Edward VIII was forced to abdicate because he was determined to marry a divorced woman. As a result of that decision, the Queen's father, George VI, was obliged to lead the country through a war that threatened its survival, with all the personal pain portrayed in 'The King's Speech.'”

695. “My favorite thing from Dairy Queen is a Peanut Buster Parfait, which is: fudge at the bottom, vanilla ice cream, some peanuts, fudge, peanuts, ice cream, fudge, and it's layered. But I also really like peanut butter cups, so I'll put peanut butter cups in there.”

696. “Without doubt, the Queen's personal acceptance of her role as a loyal E.U. servant was one of the great symbolic moments of our history. A bit like Magna Carta, but backwards.”

697. “I like to listen to the Police, Sting, Queen, Pet Shop Boys.”

698. “The notion of 'Queen's English' is usually applied to our pronunciation.”

699. “I started off in the leisure industry and now I find myself as the DIY queen - I'm not quite sure how that happened!”

700. “Get picked for an Ashes Test at Lord's and you know you're going to meet the Queen. She arrived before the start of our game against Australia in 2013 and we lined up for inspection like the household cavalry on Horse Guards Parade.”

701. “I play music from Queen, to Elton John, to classic.”

702. “I love gritty dramas, 'Queen Sugar,' 'True Detective' - stuff like that, but I also love quippy comedies - those multi-cam comedies with incredibly talented and funny casts with perfect comedic timing.”

703. “Just to be a part of anything that Queen Latifah is involved in is an honor, because she's such an amazing person and an amazing actress.”

704. “A King and Queen can comfort the people in times of grief, and provide a nationalist camaraderie. That is the gift that royalty can give back.”

705. “I suddenly became an unprofessional tantrum queen but people tend to forget that we associate these terms only with actresses. So many times, actors report late to the sets or don't even show up. But most women will tell you how we don't even have the luxury to be five minutes late.”

706. “I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.”

707. “That's the part I kept trying to say on Queen Radio: I don't have to believe you because you're saying it. I'm not saying you're a liar, I learned that long ago too. There's a big difference between you're a liar and I don't believe you.”

708. “I like Queen Latifah.”

709. “I never really thought I would be a Bollywood actress. However, I am a drama queen at home, so I guess Bollywood was bound to happen someday or the other.”

710. “As a kid, picturing people who grew up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I walking around in hose and latched shoes in the woods behind my house was an interesting atmospheric thing for me.”

711. “African Queen' is pretty darn great.”

712. “'Queen Latifah once came up to me and said 'Bebot' was her favorite song. She said, 'I don't know what you're talking about, but it feels dope!'' - apl.de.ap”

713. “I play the Wicked Queen in 'Snow White.' I'm not typecast. It's terrible. I should be Prince Charming.”

714. “Growing up, I loved Boy George, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross.”

715. “Who's the real queen? Hell yeah, hell yeah. Bow down, I'm the real queen!”

716. “I start 'The Code Book' with the story of Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot, which was foiled when Mary's enciphered messages fell into the hands of Elizabeth I's codebreakers.”

717. “That was one thing my mama instilled in me: to be well trained in the kitchen. Growing up, I was always in the kitchen with her. You name it, I make it: red beans and rice, lasagna, chicken, pork. I am the queen of cooking.”

718. “Interview With a Vampire' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Queen of the Damned,' not so much one of my favorite movies, but it's one of the best soundtracks of all time.”

719. “Queen were the first western band I got hooked on. I got a bootleg - there was hardly any legal buying of CDs in Georgia.”

720. “My dad was a proper old English gentleman, even though he was from the Caribbean. He used to stand up and salute during the Queen's Christmas speech.”

721. “I can always spot an Australian queen by her high, high end wig. Australian drag queens have the best hair in the world - the best.”

722. “After Pride, Christmas is a drag queen's next best holiday. It's pretty gay, full of tinsel and glitter and finery and campness.”

723. “Any queen who's ever worked in a drag bar, or even been in a drag dressing room, knows that underlying all of that is a sense of family.”

724. “As a 'RuPaul's Drag Race' queen, I meet so many fans from so many walks of life.”

725. “I have a lot of talent and sometimes, you know, when people see you're a drag queen they go, 'Oh, he's a drag queen. That's what he does.' But I'm always excited to… stretch the boundaries on how they see me.”

726. “I started watching, growing, learning, and putting in extra effort to become the best queen I could.”

727. “Waving to the Queen after singing Amazing Grace at Buckingham Palace, that was pretty cool.”

728. “I spent time in refugee camps in Southeast Asia, and in the projects of Chicago. I've been to State dinners with Presidents. I met the Queen of England on a beach in Anguilla. No one is any more valuable or important than you are. No one is more important than your family and your friends.”

729. “I drive by Baskin Robbins, and - I don't know, it's like - it's pretty hard. Or Dairy Queen. I go nuts. I just gotta keep going.”

730. “She ain't my queen. My grandmother is my queen, and my auntie, my cousin, my daughters… the Queen's never done anything for me.”

731. “The Queen wanted me to do the music for the 2000 celebrations at the Dome. I went down to these offices at Buckingham Palace and had a meeting with these people, and I was like, 'Alright how much?' And they said, 'Well no, it's for the Queen.' They thought because it's such a huge thing, I'd do it for free! So I turned that down.”

732. “As far as I'm concerned, when the Queen, who we all love very much, is finished with her reign then Britain should go and stop being a banana republic as it is when we have the royal family and become a real republic.”

733. “Sometimes if you're dealing with straight interviewers they're a little more excited if you're in drag: 'Oooh! Aaaah! Eeeee!' But if you're just sitting there out of drag, they think you're just a bitter queen.”

734. “In 1996 I was working on a play in New Orleans, and they needed a drag queen. I offered to play the role. That led to guest appearances at bars, which led to regular appearances at bars, which led to hosting. I eventually started working six days a week in bars before moving to N.Y.C.”

735. “I mean, I'm a drag queen, any excuse to wear a costume means it's going to be a good time.”

736. “The average person assumes that you're a drag queen so you're a nelly and you want to be a girl, which is not the case, and I think Drag Race has changed that for us.”

737. “As a drag queen, you can pick your hair and I've made some horrible choices.”

738. “I didn't plan to be a comedian. I didn't plan to be a drag queen. It just kind of evolved.”

739. “Most people think they don't have anything to relate to a drag queen, but shockingly there's a lot we can talk about.”

740. “With 'Drag Race' in particular, I'd seen seasons four and five, before mine. So I wasn't a huge, knew every word, knew every queen type of fan. There are some contestants who have done this show who know everything about it.”

741. “I think every city and every drag queen has a different aesthetic or set up, but in the end, it's mutual respect for one another.”

742. “I hope people realize that drag queens and queer people, we're not just archetypes and stereotypes. We're human beings with a lot to share. And a drag queen doesn't have to just be a clown, she can also be like a cooking TV personality or like a DJ, or a talk-show host. We should be able to infiltrate TV everywhere.”

743. “I very much treat my stage persona of Jinkx as a character I've created. Some drag artists do a look-based glamour act, and when they talk they're mostly just being themselves. In my case it's not Jinkx the drag queen, it's Jerrick Hoffer as Jinkx Monsoon.”

744. “Well, I think 'Addams Family Values' is definitely a gay icon movie and definitely a drag queen icon movie that no one ever talks about.”

745. “I started drag in Portland, Oregon, but I don't feel that I came to life as a drag queen until I started working in Seattle. That's what really lit the rocket fuel in my career.”

746. “If one drag queen penetrates the mainstream and opens up a new avenue for us to take with our careers, that means all of us can potentially do that.”

747. “I don't think I knew Ru was a drag queen when I would see her in 'The Brady Bunch Movie.'”

748. “That openness to experimentation in Seattle is how I learned a drag queen doesn't have to just be in her pageant gear and lip syncing to top 40. Drag can be off-the-wall, ridiculous, profound.”

749. “When I found the 'Human Nature' music video as a teenager - I've been a drag queen since 15 - I just loved that music video so much because it's such a celebration of her femininity and her sexuality. I thought it was so powerful.”

750. “Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they're portrayed in films like 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Silence of the Lambs.'”

751. “A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.”

752. “I've always loved Salem, and I love the title of Scream Queen.”

753. “A Scream Queen is a beautiful, bad actress who's really good at screaming, but it also represents standing up for equality and anti-bullying for LGBT youth.”

754. “I went into 'RuPaul's Drag Race' saying, 'I'll never cry.' Because they make fun of every queen that cries on the show. And I did cry, and I did scream, and I did have doubt, and I did have great, victorious moments.”

755. “Some people say, 'Oh you're a weird queen. You're a punk queen.' All queens are weird! I don't care if you're in a sickening gown or dressed as an octopus. You are treating every day as if it were Halloween. You are donning a character and a persona that isn't real.”

756. “In fact, I was voted Prom Queen by my classmates in my senior year. So I went from being a wrestler to the prom queen in a year.”

757. “Always tip a drag queen. If they're good, they deserve it. And if they're bad, at least they'll go away after that buck.”

758. “I'm trying to take drag back to its down-and-dirty roots where people get offended at first, and then they're like, 'Oh my God, this crazy queen.'”

759. “I'm a drag queen. I want colors that get attention. The world does not need another palette with eight tans and a blue.”

760. “I'm not that guy in the suit, speaking the Queen's English. I don't need to be. I've done enough. I can go on 'Newsnight' as me.”

761. “People want to see me as a posh square, so I'll play an East End drag queen or a young man with a cleft palate.”

762. “I'm always nice and then people are happy to hang out with me! There's no point being a sassy diva queen.”

763. “I am known as the gossip queen on sets!”

764. “And for it to make the statement the way that it did, for 'Controlled Chaos' to debut in the Top 10 of the iTunes rock chart… We debuted behind Queen and Chris Cornell, so it's not like we were just hidden away in the back of the instrumental metal category.”

765. “As your newly crowned queen of Earth, it is my first royal decree that flats are sexy and nails are optional.”

766. “I was like, 18 and it was in West Virginia because I was allowed to get into the clubs in West Virginia, not Pennsylvania where I was growing up. And we went in and there was a drag queen on stage and she was huge and beautiful, but she was lip syncing to a song. I was legitimately stunned.”

767. “It's funny that for women in horror, we have to use the term scream queen, because there is no term for a villain in horror who is female and powerful.”

768. “I was very privileged to enjoy The Queen Mother's company on many occasions. She was relaxed and informal - she would just sit down for a chat.”

769. “I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.”

770. “In Queen Mary's, which was an all-girls' college, I learned discipline, hard work and to be competitive. But at Madras Film Institute, I learned about the world, being free and knowledgeable, and thinking beyond oneself.”

771. “A drag queen is one that usually goes to a ball and that's the only time she gets dressed up. Transvestites live in drag. A transsexual spends most of her life in drag.”

772. “I know people think I'm a stupid little street queen out there begging for change cause there's nothing else she knows how to do.”

773. “I mean tomorrow if I want to make a film about a queen that lived in the 15th century, I can't be like I can't make it. I should be able to make it.”

774. “I am not a drag queen.”

775. “I'm a big show queen to begin with. I think in show tunes.”

776. “I'm just a boy with a dream from Queens. Just a queen from Queens.”

777. “I think at some point I need an OBE from the Queen as I've entertained the nation during Corona.”

778. “I have a lot of female fans, and I feel like in this day and age, as a drag queen who is a female impersonator, I need to show my love and respect to all those female fans out there, especially my young ones who are learning about how to love themselves and love who they are in every way.”

779. “Sometimes a busted queen is more entertaining than a polished queen.”

780. “I don't think being Latin queen is a disadvantage.”

781. “The staging for 'Monsters' is all about me getting free. In the beginning I'm like tied, in a dark place… until I am scared no more, and I'm taking the lead of my life, I'm being the queen of my life, I'm ruling the world! In the end I'm taking a risk, but I'm taking the leap of faith.”

782. “I would like to wish Harry Redknapp the best of luck filling my old seat in the dugout at Queen's Park Rangers. It was one of the achievements of my managerial career getting QPR back into the Premier League after a 15-year absence and I would be very sad to see them go back down after all the hard work the players, staff and myself put in.”

783. “I looked up the Queen of Swords and I read the meaning. It was a tarot card. The description of the tarot card sounded to me like the description of a certain type of woman: She's strong, she's proud, she's intelligent and all these different things. I was like, that's how I want to be.”

784. “I don't want to say I'm closing the doors to this possibility completely. It's just that I'm very passionate about my acting and being a beauty queen takes time. I'd have to prepare physically. I'd have to perfect my walk. And since I'm no beauty queen, this requires a lot of training.”

785. “I don't have enough time to actually prepare, to actually commit to being a beauty queen.”

786. “If I could pick a dream job it would be sitting in a room with a fabulous drag queen chatting about 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'”

787. “If I was a man, I would be a drag queen. Honestly, I would. I absolutely love it.”

788. “The Queen is a true professional and calmly pinned my MBE on.”

789. “Like, no, I can really be queen of the universe. I can be president. I can be, I don't know, an alien from Venus. Like you could just seriously… and that's the fun of acting.”

790. “I was very excited and pleased when I got the opportunity to play Lisa Hayden's role. I saw the original version of 'Queen' and feel the role has so much to offer.”

791. “My husband may be the King of All Media, but I'm the queen of the house.”

792. “Actually I saw Manichitrathazhu' in Malayalam and I wanted to try the costume Shobana wore, to sit like her and carry that attitude, to feel like a queen.”

793. “Being sweet is something that's already given. As a beauty queen, you know that you should be relatable to people, that you should be authentic - and that makes you sweet. But you should also have that 'it' factor, and the confidence that will make you spicy.”

794. “I might not earn loads, but I can proudly say that I've travelled the world, met the Queen and flown with the Red Arrows.”

795. “When I was approached to play the queen of witchland, I was fascinated.”

796. “As a politician, I felt like a servant, but in the film industry, I feel like a queen.”

797. “When I say I need a queen, I need a woman of principle and poise.”

798. “It's not unusual to have only three weeks to score a picture. And that's three weeks from signing on to finishing the last recording session. That's how I did 'The Queen' and, more recently, it's how I did 'The Imitation Game.'”

799. “I feel like I am just an entertainer. It does not matter what form I take to perform and entertain. I think I deserve being called a performer because you don't call Tyler Perry a drag queen. You don't call Will Smith a drag queen and all the other mainstream artists who use the aesthetic of drag to entertain.”

800. “I grew up on Queen, ABBA and at the same time, Nityasree.”

801. “I'm a big gadget queen.”

802. “Bob was the king, and as his queen I must carry on.”

803. “Look at films like 'Raazi,' 'Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi' and 'Padmaavat'… women in our film industry have changed the whole scenario. They are no less than our male actors.”

804. “My private life has never been a secret. I've never been a closet queen.”

805. “When I said yes to doing 'Queen's Gambit,' I was feeling burned out on directing and movie-wise wasn't sure what my next big project was going to be. So I said yes to doing this very different type of project that required a different skill set from me, sort of just to shake things up, if anything.”

806. “I liked Art Linkletter's way of conducting an interview while still keeping it light and I even admired Jack Bailey, host of 'Queen for a Day.' Particularly fascinating was how he could listen to all those awful tales of woe, then smile and slap someone on the back and declare her Queen for a Day.”

807. “Gong Li is like the queen of movies.”

808. “We had a whole bunch of perks after the Olympic games like having dinner with the Queen of England and being hosted by the Prince of Monaco. We got to drop pucks at hockey games. We got to go on quite a tour.”

809. “Mum got a QSM (Queen's Service Medal) for her community work in mental health. She was a psychiatric social worker, so she'd travel all around the north visiting people back in the day.”

810. “At first it was like, 'I don't want to date no drag queen.' I guess it's considered taboo and funny. I always have to set my friends straight and say, 'We're two gay men, and that is why we're attracted to each other.' We don't kiss in drag usually, it messes up our lipstick. Sometimes I'll try, and she'll be like, 'Get away from me.'”

811. “'Dancing Queen' was the hardest to pull off, all those boats and all those people dancing around the street with boats coming around the corner.”

812. “Yes, I was called the 'Bandit Queen' at my home and in the neighbourhood.”

813. “When I was crowned the college queen, I got a lot of modeling offers and I did a fair amount of work in Delhi.”

814. “Truly, I have boundaries. I am someone who has a very, very, strong, amazing, powerful boundaries. I'm the boundary queen.”

815. “The Queen is distant towards strangers. But with friends and family she can be very funny.”

816. “Queen Elizabeth is reserved when she meets strangers - but with friends and family she can be very witty.”

817. “After coming toward the completion of Queen Sugar,' I had the opportunity to speak with the executives and head writers at Days of our Lives.'”

818. “I'd love to follow in Bryan Danielson's footsteps in Ring of Honor and go even further, then get knighted by the queen, which I shall do.”

819. “I'm very interested in Queen Victoria's younger years at Kensington Palace. She was born in the dining room because it had stairs down to hot water in the kitchen.”

820. “Historic Royal Palaces is an independent charity without funding from the royal family or the government. But I have met the Queen, she comes to open projects, and she is always very interested.”

821. “You would think that the weapons of a king and queen were perhaps their armies or centuries of tradition but what they have is the power of the media. The visual is almost more important than words because they don't have that many opportunities to speak.”

822. “Medieval kings left the job of kindness to their queens. If the queen begged for someone not to be beheaded, the king could show mercy without losing face.”

823. “I am a man who happens to play women's parts. And I'm not a drag queen. I'd like to think that I'm several levels above that.”

824. “There are so many fabulous heroine-oriented projects happening in Mumbai, whether it's 'Kahaani,' 'Bobby Jasoos,' 'Queen' or 'Mardaani.'”

825. “David Haye is a drama queen and I don't know why more attention is being given to a drama queen but the show must go on.”

826. “Several people have told me that Queen Elizabeth made slighting comments about Philip within their hearing, and referred to him - not entirely humorously - as 'the Hun.'”

827. “Prince Philip had formally 'retired' in the summer of 2017, a couple of months after his 96th birthday, because the Queen encouraged him to do so. She wanted to stop him 'pushing himself all the time'. She had become anxious about him.”

828. “I regularly dream about the Queen. Apparently, millions of people do. I wonder who she dreams about?”

829. “My introduction to the Queen was disconcerting, to say the least. 'This is Gyles Brandreth,' said the Duke of Edinburgh cheerily. 'Apparently, he's writing about you.'”

830. “Prince Philip protected the Queen and made her laugh.”

831. “Once, during one of the jubilee tours, I was in the car immediately behind theirs and I watched Prince Philip telling the Queen a story. He kept her laughing for 20 minutes.”

832. “The Queen is frequently on her own, walking the dogs, riding her horses, playing patience, completing a jigsaw, sorting her photograph albums, watching television, phoning friends, doing the Telegraph crossword. Is she neglected? Is she suffering? Or does she simply understand her man?”

833. “If you're the Queen you don't need to say anything and you don't get into trouble. If you're the Duke of Edinburgh you say a lot of things, sometimes too many, and you do get into trouble.”

834. “Prince Philip's principal role since 1952 has been to support the Queen. Alongside that, he has created his own working life as founder, fellow, patron, president, chairman, or member of at least 837 organizations - as well as a Colonel or Colonel-in-Chief, Field Marshal, Admiral, Air Commodore 42 times over.”

835. “You never remember what you say to the Queen, she just has this aura about her.”

836. “Oprah is the queen!”

837. “Like I said, I've always been a lazy drag queen. I'm actually a boy and I hate dressing up. I don't hate it. It's fun, but it's not something that I like doing all the time.”

838. “I'm a performing queen.”

839. “To be recognized by the Queen, it's just wow, thank you.”

840. “People say to me, 'What do you think your mother would think about this new world with Instagram?' And I pause and I just say, 'Well, she really was the queen of Instagram because she was more photographed than anyone else.'”

841. “In 1985 I graduated from Deshler High School in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and I was their first African American homecoming queen. You would have thought I won Miss America or Miss U.S.A. (wink), because of my excitement.”

842. “My only experience in the world of tiaras was as a contestant in a homecoming queen pageant that featured all the high school homecoming queens in the South. While I did not win (much less place), I did walk away from the experience with a renewed sense of self confidence and ambition.”

843. “When you are a queen in your own country, why would you want to go anywhere else?”

844. “I'm a huge Queen fan.”

845. “I've been a drag queen in public for a while now.”

846. “My dad's name is 'The Drag Queen.'”

847. “Tidicue is not my real last name. It's just T-D-Q, as in 'The Drag Queen.'”

848. “My first time in drag was at Pride. I'm a Pride queen. It was a disaster. The short answer is that you can do it, but you're going to create a drag faux-pas. Do not, I repeat, do not wear high heels to Pride. Don't do it. It's not worth it. Just don't do it to yourself, honey.”

849. “My dad is known as the king of tyres in the tyre industry and he is a completely self-made man. And if I were to join the business, I would be called the queen of tyres the next day.”

850. “There was a moment in time when we were filming in London, and we thought someone stole one of the queen's wigs. But I think someone had just misplaced it. It was so funny. I remember it being the most panicked day on set. 'We're missing a wig!'”

851. “I am waiting for the right projects to come. I am in no hurry at all. After the blessing of being part of a great film, I want to make sure that whatever I do next capitalises on how amazing 'Queen' has been.”

852. “Queen Victoria loved the French Riviera. She visited on nine occasions and did a great deal to give this area its chic international reputation.”

853. “I'm the shade queen and no one throws shade better than me!”

854. “They call me garbage queen at home, because I'm extremely particular about reduce, reuse and recycle.”

855. “I've been asked that question lots of time before, why wasn't I on Live Aid? And quite frankly I don't know. I was riding high in the charts and the styles of music they had were quite varied from Adam Ant to Status Quo to Queen. I would have definitely fitted in.”

856. “My mum has an MBE and the Queen actually came to my mum and dad's hotel for lunch with the Prince back in the 1980s.”

857. “I started as an inexperienced drag queen with awful makeup serving daiquiris to obnoxious bachelorette parties.”

858. “If you were supposed to be a drag queen, and that's what you wanted to do, you'd be doing it already, you wouldn't be in my DMs asking me how to do so. When I started I was ugly, but I didn't think I was ugly. You have to not dream it, but be it - that's it.”

859. “I definitely think that I, as a drag queen, can endure pain a lot better than most people.”

860. “I was a volleyball player. After the accident, I played the sport in a wheelchair but never liked it. I wanted to live my life like a queen.”

861. “Keith treated me like queen. In the three years we were married, he never said one ugly word to me, never raised his voice. We had disagreements and arguments but he was so gentle and caring. As much as I had to take care of him, he took care of me in other ways.”

862. “Rockfield is a famous studio where we recorded early Simple Minds songs. It holds a bit of our own history and Queen recorded 'Bohemian Rhapsody' there.”

863. “That's key in a relationship, the husband needs to cherish his wife and always treat his wife like a queen.”

864. “Everything about my brand is where I am from like the title of my album 'Queen of Da Souf'… I always credit my city because that is my brand.”

865. “I started to listen to music in '80 or '81, bands like Queen or Kiss. Then in '83, when I first got into Slayer and Venom and stuff like that, they just blew my mind.”

866. “I'd be the most common queen in the world!”

867. “I've always wanted to be in 'Doctor Who' and now to be in it and playing Queen Elizabeth I is absolutely fantastic, so exciting.”

868. “For anyone who has heard recordings of Florence Foster Jenkins' performances in the 1930s and 1940s, she's always been the greatest diva - the one they called 'the diva of din,' 'the first lady of the sliding scale,' and 'the queen of camp.' Although she's not really camp, she's just totally sincere.”

869. “Corbyn, like me, is a republican and an atheist. How then can we possibly be expected to sing along to an anthem which begins with the words 'God save our gracious Queen?'”

870. “I'm not a drama queen or anything.”

871. “People say they don't see it but when I was little in junior college, I was a drama queen. I just demanded the ball, and it paid off for me.”

872. “The Queen musical ran for years, but then Rod Stewart's wasn't as successful, so you never know.”

873. “My grandmother is the queen bee in our family. She gets so much respect from everyone.”

874. “I'm the queen of 'Chloe put the scissors down.' When I was in college, I was on vacation on a tiny boat, I took scissors and a razor blade and I like cut off all my hair. I was like, 'I can do this!'”

875. “I am the queen of the bold and bright eyeshadow.”

876. “I love to dress for the occasion. I played in an online chess tournament, so for every single day of that, I created some outfits inspired by Beth Harmon from 'The Queen's Gambit.'”

877. “If you ask for the ball you're a drama queen, all of these things. But if you sit there and you're quiet and not saying anything you're not going to get the ball. All of that is outside noise.”

878. “I'm not about to be a drama queen just because I'm not getting the amount of targets that I want.”