I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

- Lou Holtz

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

- Zaha Hadid

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

- Sue Townsend

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

- Samantha Bond

I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.

- Rutger Hauer

My first project was 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'. I co-produced that.

- Roy Conli

My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.

- Philippe Petit

There is nothin' like a dame.

- Oscar Hammerstein II

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.

- Miranda Richardson

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

- Mae West

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

- Alan Cumming

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

- Lou Holtz

I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.

- Lou Holtz

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!

- Kelly Brook

I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.

- Jessica Walter

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

- Frank Sinatra

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

- Ethel Merman

I am a classy dame.

- Evangeline Lilly

I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.

- Cilla Black

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

- Bette Davis