Ultimately, 'Cinderella' is the story of the underdog. You root for her in this fairytale; the girl who has nothing, deserves so much more, and gets it.

- Lily James

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

- Shana Alexander

To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!

- Randee Heller

The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.

- Paddy Considine

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

- Mike Nichols

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

- Malala Yousafzai

I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.

- Madonna Ciccone

I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.'

- Lesley Ann Warren

I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.

- Laura Osnes

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

- Laura Osnes

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

- Charles Perrault

People talk a lot about, 'You're a Disney princess! You're Cinderella!' and this and that. But for me, it's all about the fact that I worked with Cate Blanchett and was directed by Kenneth Branagh. That's the 'Cinderella' story for me.

- Lily James

The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.

- Lily James

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

- Lea Salonga

I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'

- Kenneth Branagh

I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

- Jodi Benson

Someone at Disney heard one of the records and called me in to do the sounds of Lucifer the Cat in Cinderella.

- June Foray

In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.

- Hamish Bowles

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.

- Gail Carson Levine

For many of us, our proms were less Walt Disney's 'Cinderella' and more Stephen King's 'Carrie.' The less we spent on them, the better.

- Gina Barreca