Cinderella Quotations

People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

I remember liking 'A Cinderella Story' with Hilary Duff a lot when I was younger. I loved that movie, but maybe it was because of Chad Michael Murray. It was a really sweet movie, and I always liked Hilary Duff.

When I was seven, I gave a letter to Cinderella in Disney World asking if I could be in a Disney movie. So, working for Disney was really a childhood dream come true.

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?

'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with the stepsisters ripping her dress apart scared me. Cinderella was never even my favorite character in 'Into the Woods.'

I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

We're really excited. It's been a goal of ours to a state tournament. They're excited and I think we'll be ready to go. We're certainly the Cinderella if we can a few games. Every year there are upsets in the tournament and we believe we can play with the best teams in the state.

We knew they were on a roll and this is like their Cinderella season. We knew they?d be up for the game and we knew there was a possibility it would be close. We just had to play our game and that?s we did.

We're a Cinderella team. But we also think we're as good as anyone out there. Now we just have to continue to prove it.

We were Cinderella last year; now everybody knows about us. There's no surprise. It's kind of funny. We never get attention during the year and during tournament time, we are the favorite. How is that possible?

No. I don't like being called Cinderella any more. It makes me mad. They can call us Cinderella if they want, and then we'll just come out and beat you.

. . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.'

I felt like Cinderella going to the ball.

I feel like we are stepping out of the Cinderella role. Our record is not really impressive, but .... I guess our record doesn't really count as long as we play as a team and stick together.

I don't want any of the Cinderella talk.

We studied many different versions of classic fairy tales from different cultures around the world. We took stories like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood and studied at least five versions of each so the students could compare and contrast them.

I think we're a Cinderella team, but I think we're just as good as any team out there.

I thought our defensive effort tonight was outstanding. Next week's going to be tough, but if we defend like that and make people uncomfortable, we can make a Cinderella run here, without a doubt.

I thought our defensive effort tonight was outstanding. If we can play defense like that, we can make a Cinderella run here.

It is not funny or humorous or like a Disney film. It is not a Herbie or a Cinderella Story.

I was very touched, and very happy that Kelly won. It was such a Cinderella story.

I think sunflower has kind of come full circle. It was a Cinderella crop in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But as other crops have had technology - Roundup Ready corn, herbicides and insect resistance - growers have opted for those technologies in lieu of sunflower.

Just 'cause we're Cinderella doesn't mean we'll go all the way. We just came up a little short today.

I would like to direct a movie, but not a glossy feature film. I am thinking it would be more like a full-length documentary type of movie about my life. It would definitely be autobiographical. It would be about a girl from the Eastern bloc who makes it in the fashion world. You know, a Cinderella story.

We don't see them as a Cinderella team. We just view them as one of the top 32 teams in the country.

You know there are going to be Cinderella stories, but you just don't know which teams.

We're not shy about using that name to get people out to see us, but once they're there, we hook them in with Naked Beggars songs. But we do a few Cinderella songs.

Walt Disney built an empire by taking public domain works like Cinderella and dressing them up with his imagination.

We were very much a Cinderella team, and we were able to shock a lot of people in that tournament because we were so well coached and prepared.

We consider ourselves a Cinderella team. But we know we can play with anybody.

We are excited that the DVD launch is happening, and there's a lot of great Cinderella merchandise that's going to be on wish lists this holiday.

We don't really we buy into the Cinderella thing. This is why we came to Gonzaga, to get in this situation and play these kinds of games. We look at this is where we should be.

We felt we had to jump on them early. They were a Cinderella team, and I told them the longer you let them hang around, the more things could go in their favor. We had to get out and squash them.

Everybody wanted to see us lose. We just had to make the Cinderella story a different outcome than all the ones in the movies.

There's no doubt our goal was to make it back to Little Rock and to win state. But it's much easier to be the Cinderella team than to be the team with a target on your chest. Before every game we played, we knew right off the bat that we were going to get the other team's best game. Over the course of a 30-game season, that starts to wear on you.

I see a different type of year than the Braves are used to. If you ask Bobby, it has to be one of the most challenging seasons in his whole career. Definitely different. To me, a Cinderella story.

It would be nice if everything always came up roses in life and you were the Cinderella story all the time, but sometimes you're on the other side of the coin. It's our fate tonight to be in that role.

That's what I was thinking. Let's give Cinderella a kiss, put her back in her carriage and send her home.

This isn't a Cinderella team. This is a team that's playing up to its expectations and you do it with defense first, rebounding second and offense third. It seems kind of funny that we're tied with La Tech for that last spot. That's where I learned all those things.

This could be a Cinderella story. It's going to be a tough task.

They are someone we're a little nervous about because they're like us. They're on a Cinderella run. They have as much heart for the game as we do.

This is what March Madness is all about and it's why everybody bets on college basketball. It's about cheering for the underdog and watching the Cinderella teams take on the big guns. Despite taking in a record number of bets, it's astonishing to think only 13 people bet on George Mason at the start of the tournament. It's the ultimate long shot bet and it could make these 13 customers very, very happy.

They're on a roll. Cinderella is living in East St. Louis.

It's a storybook ending and a Cinderella story. Looking at the schedule, you saw the Green Bay regional and Milwaukee with the national championship. We wanted to be there so bad. We knew it would be a great sea of red fans. It was everything it lived up to be in our dreams, and we got it done with blood, sweat and tears.

It was really nice to come down, see a good, solid win, ... It's the last time I get to see a game this year in Australia and it means that in the five weeks so far that they've had Cinderella Man (an advertising patch for Crowe's recent movie) on their jerseys, they've won four out of five.

I told our guys, if we're going to be Cinderella, you have to remember Cinderella was a beautiful young lady that turned eventually into a princess. I don't think our guys want to be referred to as princesses, but you know the idea. You kiss the frog and it turns into a prince.

I told the girls before the game that it would not be our offense that would win the game, it would be our defense. It is like a Cinderella year for us and the girls really deserve it.

It is time to kiss Cinderella and send her home.

For me, Cinderella Man is the story of how one family survived the Depression,

It's been an ugly year for us, it's been tough. You can look at it as an opportunity to turn a real ugly season into kind of a Cinderella story, but it never happened.

It's rare a team has a Cinderella year where they have a lot of losing seasons and then all of a sudden make it to the playoffs, unless you can go out and buy a bunch of talent. For us, that's one of our stepping stones. We want to get to .500 and keep moving from there.

It sounds like this incredible Cinderella story, ... but it didn't surprise me at all.

That's probably the best Cinderella run in the history of the district tournament.

Everybody wants us to lose. But that doesn't mean much. I kind of want to be the bad guy. Everybody wants them to win. They're going to have the crowd behind them. It's time to kiss Cinderella and send her home.

The best part about designing and working in the ballroom dance business is when a lady who might not feel so good about herself puts on a gown and her eyes light up, ... They feel like a Cinderella at the ball, or they feel like a princess or a bride walking down the aisle. When they look in the mirror, that's the most satisfying part of my job.

Oh man, I was so tired of all the Cinderella talk. The bottom line was we had to come out and win this game.

The NCAA Tournament is about a Cinderella story. People look forward to the underdog coming in and winning. Fortunately for us, we didn't let it happen. We put ourselves in a real bad situation, but I think our guys kept their composure.

I never felt this before, as a player, as a manager, as a coach ? winning the division from the beginning. We're the Cinderella of the playoffs.

I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.

I love the Cinderella story and the kids love it. It's quite beautiful.

I have total compassion for CMR. But state tournaments are for Cinderella teams.

In the NCAA tournament, there are two things people love to see -- a Cinderella story and a team that is so powerful and explosive they look invincible.

I guess you could say we're more of a Cinderella story with a 10th seed coming in, and by beating Duquesne we shocked a lot of people, including ourselves. Our kids don't think they are, and they think this is where they should be. I give them a lot of credit for having that feeling.

I just knew Cinderella was going home. Give her a kiss and say goodbye.

Cinderella story or not - to me, honestly, I don't care. Does being (a Cinderella team) help you win basketball games at all? I don't know.

Cinderella is the tip of the iceberg. The juvenile market is just an entry point for this extraordinary new technology that will ultimately impact everyone of any age. What if your sheets could turn on a light without a switch? What if your pillows could talk? What if your shower curtain could play music?

Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.

I couldn't be more proud. We closed the book on the Cinderella story. We tried our best. We put ourselves in position to win. We got down. We came back. It was a tremendous effort.

All of the photographs of her wearing that gown, she looks like she's Cinderella going to the ball. Older women remember her fondly and younger women, I think, get a kick out of how elated she was at being the center of attention going off to the inaugural ball.

The last week before the ball we study Cinderella and the students spend a little time each day traveling around the school trying the glass slipper on teachers looking for the real princess. At the ball, the students are thrilled when Prince Charming arrives and the glass slipper fits the true Cinderella.