Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Emma Corrin

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Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Emma Corrin

Emma-Louise Corrin is an English actor. They portrayed Diana, Princess of Wales in the fourth season of the Netflix period drama series The Crown in 2020, for which they won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and were nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

I'm not a dancer at all.
I wrote a lot as a child. I had an insane imagination.
I've heard it said that you stop growing from the age you get famous. — © Emma Corrin
I've heard it said that you stop growing from the age you get famous.
Schitt's Creek' has become my go-to, comforting favorite; it's a they-feel-like-my-friends kind of TV program.
I wanted to quit school, and get an agent. My parents wouldn't let me. They wanted me to have an another option, to get a degree under my belt.
Costume is integral, but it clicks into place last.
If I try to be funny, I'm very not funny.
I worked with a great photographer called Rafael Pavarotti a while ago and he's got some amazing playlists on Spotify.
I live in a flat with my three best mates from university, none of whom are actors. It keeps you grounded.
There became a clear connection from Diana's unstable childhood to her looking for something welcoming. We knew she was a very warm person who gravitated towards people. She was looking to be embraced in something very warm and very familiar, and she didn't find that at all; she found the exact opposite with the royal family.
I think, these days when someone talks about their struggles of mental health, we are almost surprised by it. It comes as a revelation and we all really acknowledge it.
I'm such a playlist poacher.
I think of myself as young, but I was 23 when we were filming. Diana was 19; 16 at the start. — © Emma Corrin
I think of myself as young, but I was 23 when we were filming. Diana was 19; 16 at the start.
Every rejection, every phone call from my agent to say, 'It didn't go your way,' I felt the layers of my skin growing. 'OK, cool, let's move on.' You have to get beyond the fear of rejection and plow on because it's intense.
I've got very long limbs and for the best part of my life, they've been very uncoordinated.
I feel I've got to know Diana like you would a friend. I know that sounds really weird, but I get a great sense of companionship from her.
When I was 16, I had a massive crush on our tennis coach and every time he came round to teach my brothers I used to sit outside and pretend to be reading something really intellectual.
People always ask how fame has hit me, and rarely do I feel it emotionally.
The sooner I can move away from doing posh English, the better, even though that's what I am.
I get very anxious doing press and events, so it's important I surround myself with people I get on with and really trust.
Every time I ask someone to tell me, 'What animal do you think I am?' they always say a bird, because I'm very flighty. It's the worst one.
I think Diana was a very friendly person.
As an actor, you tend to get excited about scenes that are weighty or meaty because you get to shift gears in a way that's quite interesting.
I only watched the documentary 'Diana: In Her Own Words,' which is now on Netflix. I didn't watch another documentary. I don't think I would have got the part without it.
I've started to experience being followed around where I live, and it's never nice. With acting, you realize that it's part of what you sign up for, but with the royals, you're sort of born into it.
I have come to know Diana better than anyone else, so my sympathy will always lie with her. But I also have a huge appreciation of Charles, and what they both had to endure in that marriage. I don't think you can pick a side.
I think in America, people have this, I think you guys have an obsession over the Royal family in a way that we don't. Because I guess we just live with it.
I love to perform, it's how I can best express myself.
A lot of people refer to young Diana as sweet and shy, and yeah, a lot of us are when we're 18 or whatever.
I want to do a gritty, independent film, maybe in Scotland or something. I'll have an outrageous accent, and flowing red hair.
I love figuring people out.
There's this theme throughout my life of Diana cropping up. It doesn't feel ordinary.
You think you're doing the coolest thing in the world when you're a teenager and you like someone.
No matter what Diana is saying, it kind of goes down at the end. It's like a sadness.
There were things I tried to emulate, like Diana's head tilt and her voice. She had a very unique way of speaking.
The industry loves to pigeonhole.
I am a trained singer, but I had to unlearn how to sing with a coach, because Diana wasn't trained.
I think I'd be lying if I said it didn't help me in my journey with everything to play someone like Diana. She was so openhearted to everything and explored so much. — © Emma Corrin
I think I'd be lying if I said it didn't help me in my journey with everything to play someone like Diana. She was so openhearted to everything and explored so much.
I do 5Rhythms a lot. It's like dance meditation. You go into a room and there's a DJ and it's in the evening, completely sober, and it's spiritual. You can just move and dance however you want.
But to be honest, for me it's always going to be about the story, and it's always going to be about how I feel about the work.
I have no living memory of Diana, but I had this weird thing where my mum used to look incredibly like her, and often got mistaken for her in public.
I met a producer at a festival last year, and she said: you will find as you get older that there might not be parts; there aren't always roles for women out there that are any good. I don't think I will ever stop feeling that way: we've all grown up in the culture, it infiltrates your subconscious.
My journey has been a long one and has still got a long way to go. I think we are so used to defining ourselves. That's the way society works within these binaries and it's taken me a long time to realize that I exist somewhere in between and I'm still not sure where that is yet.
Apparently, cats are very, very curious and have a mysterious power that draws people to them.
My friends from school did this incredible thing, where they made me a scrapbook filled with all of the screenshots from our group WhatsApp, where I had said, 'Oh my God, guys, I've been invited to read.' Or a random conversation we'd had four years ago when I said, 'Isn't Diana amazing!'
I loved playing young Diana so much. I am so fond of her, it's almost insane.
I hate being asked what it's like to play someone iconic.
I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one. — © Emma Corrin
I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one.
I think that's what Peter Morgan does so well, is to show very balanced sides of everyone.
I am a people-pleaser. I don't like letting people down.
I think for Diana, she came to the royal family thinking that it would be a family, that it would be exciting, because people would know who she was maybe. I know she was marrying a prince, but I think she genuinely thought that there would be a support system.
I feel like Diana helped me explore so many depths of myself and really do a big internal discovery of what I was feeling about everything because she was a very complex person.
Dan Levy came to see my play, and I had dinner with him. He's a gem. He's the wisest, kindest, funniest person, and I didn't want it to end.
Older Diana holds herself so well. The director would be like, 'Emma, posture!'
My roots are in theater.
Grab onto things that resonate with you, that you relate to, or that you empathize with.
You have to be very good at setting boundaries for yourself, so you're not taken advantage of.
When you're an actor starting out, you have no control. All you can do is prepare the best you can for auditions and turn up on time.
I don't remember the decision to be an actor. It was just... a very stark interest.
Someone at school said I dance like a spider, and I've never got beyond that. It's always been a running joke in my friendship groups.
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