Fairytale Quotes

When I was little, I watched a lot of Disney movies – so I always imagined a big fairytale wedding as a kid. But when marriage became real, I felt an intimate wedding with close family and friends would be better.

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

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can’t help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I’m very excited when I notice that.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world… looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.

Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.

The Brady Bunch is a live action modern fairytale of family. In this context it’s less odd that it’s lasted for over thirty years; and why it may last in some respects as long as Mother Goose!

I’m a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I’ve discovered as I’ve grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you’re a kid. It isn’t just a straightforward fairytale.

I’d always dreamed of a fairytale wedding.

I don’t think life is this Instagram fairytale everyone makes it out to be. Life is super heavy.

A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.

I’m fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There’s something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout ‘Tottigol,’ I’d like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.

It’s almost like my life is a fairytale.

When I was little, the idea of waking up as a girl was like a fairytale. I had this idea that I’d meet a witch who would transform me. From the moment I found out that it was actually possible, I went to bed each night feeling that when it happens, it will be the best day of my life. And it was!

I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that’s really not attainable, something they can’t grasp, or they think of them as European or Russian and kind of their nose up in the air. So, it’s cool for me to, like, sit with them and for them to really see themselves as me.

I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.

No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. ‘Nightmare on Elm Street‘ scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe ‘Hansel and Gretel’ a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

Put it this way, I’m a romantic, emotional guy that lives and breathes football and believes in fairytale stories; ‘Rocky,’ things like that.

I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture – and the people themselves.

I think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic – as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and oh, blue tongues!

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can’t imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.

I am not drawn to the fairytale kind of love. I am drawn to the real-life experiences between a woman and a man. I try to sing about the way it is, but yet at the same time, what you can hope for between a couple.

I’ve discovered as I’ve grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you’re a kid. It isn’t just a straightforward fairytale.

Let’s face it. Nobody predicted Trump. He’s a fairytale nightmare that none of us could possibly have imagined. Shame on those 63 million who – especially those Obama voters who crossed over and voted, shame on them for putting this idiot in the White House.

The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.

Not many things bug me, but if there’s one thing that does, it’s the idea that my story is a football fairytale.

I planned for my first film ‘Crook‘ – that it would be a smash hit and I would be an overnight sensation. You know how newcomers are, they live in this whole fairytale, like, ‘Oh my God, everything’s going to be so good and perfect.’