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. – Allison Tolman
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. – Abbey Clancy
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. – Brian May
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. – Bethany Joy Lenz
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. – Bill Keller
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. – Ava DuVernay
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.’ – Billy Porter
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. – Anthony Holden
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. – Amy Lee
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. – Charlotte Dujardin
I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen. – Candice Swanepoel
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. – Burning Spear
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.’ – Amelia Warner
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts. – A. N. Wilson
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. – Brian May
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.’ – Alexander Chee
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. – Anna Diop
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. – Andrea Corr
I’m completely anti-establishment; the only thing I like about the Queen are her scarves and her jewels. – Anita Pallenberg
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. – Christopher Hitchens
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. – Gabrielle Union
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. – Maggie Stiefvater
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. – Carmen Ejogo
I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president – I even dated the homecoming queen. – Matthew Morrison
Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain. – Felipe VI of Spain
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. – Marsha Thomason