Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Joe: This is between a waltz and a tango.
Mia: It`s a wango? Queen Clarisse Renaldi: Amelia, you look so... young.
Mia: Thank you. And you look so...
[long pause]
Mia: ... clean.
Michael: Why me?
Mia: Because you saw me when I was invisible.
Mia: Okay, you know what? I don`t feel protected. You try living for 15 years thinking that you`re one person, and then in five minute, you find out you`re a princess. Just in case I wasn`t enough of a freak already, let`s add a tiara!
Joe: I have never worn pantyhose but it sounds very dangerous.
Mia: I don`t want to rule my own country, I just want to pass the tenth grade.
Mia: I can`t be a princess! I`m still waiting for normal body parts to arrive!
[running to catch up Mia and Michael]
Lilly: [screaming] WAIT FOR ME WAIT FOR ME!
[Two others teenagers stop, and look at her]
Lilly: Wait. Wait. No, not you - I don`t even know you!
Lilly: Michael, don`t always think you could get a ride with us and...
[sees Mia`s new look]
Lilly: Oy. Who destroyed you?
Mia: Oh. You-you think it looks that bad?
Lilly: You look ridiculous. You should sue.
Mia: Well um... I know it`s a little straighter and shorter and...
Lilly: Weirder!
[Get`s in limo]
Michael: An attractive weirder.
Lilly: No, it`s not attractive!
Joe: Seat belts, please.
Lilly: What I really can`t understand is that you ditched me again yesterday when I really needed your help at the greenpeace petition.
[picks up bag]
Lilly: These bags! You HAVE one of these bags? You know, we could hock that and feed a whole third world country!
[Looks at Michael]
Lilly: Am I right?
Michael: No.
Joe: If there are no more passengers, I think we should close the door.
Mia: [to her cat, Fat Louis] You are so lucky you don`t know who your parents are.
Mia: Joseph, can we eighty-six the flags please?
Joe: No. The flags allow me to park anywhere. We keep the flags.
Mia: Sorry, Joseph.
Joe: You can call me, "Joe".
Mia: "Joey"?
[Giggles]
Joe: [Chuckles then abruptly turns serious] No. Joe.
Mia: You`ll never guess what Josh Bryant just asked me!
Michael: "Can I borrow a comb"?
Lilly: You`re morphing into one of them! Next week you`ll be waving pom-poms in my face!
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: You are princess of Genovia.
Mia: Me, a princess?
[shouts]
Mia: Shut up!
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: I beg your pardon, "Shut up"?
Consulate Maitre`D: Oh, your majesty, in America, it doesn`t always mean to be quiet. Here it could mean "Wow, gee whiz, golly wolly"...
Mia: I can`t do this, I`m a girl.
Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?
Lilly: You know you look like Shaft?
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: Goodbye, trolley people!
Fontana: Tell me Mia. Is it true about your speech? Are you really speaking at the bulimic convention?
Lana Thomas: So you can speak and barf at the same time?
[Fontana makes vomiting noises]
Vice Principal Gupta: Oh come on girls, it`s a ball not a snake. Back in formation!
Helen Thermopolis: Where are you going?
Mia: I`m going up to straighten the royal bedchamber.
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: Where is she going?
Helen Thermopolis: The tower. Mia! You can`t run from everything!
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: She has a tower?
Mia: As always, this is as good as it`s going to get.
Mia: [on her green bathing suit] Okay I look like an asparagus.
Helen Thermopolis: But a very, very cute asparagus!
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: Helen, if Amelia refuses to accept the throne, then Genovia will cease to exist as we know it.
Helen Thermopolis: So the future of your country is in the hands my 15-year-old?
Mia: You know most kids hope for a car for their 16th birthday, not a country!
Helen Thermopolis: This is getting us nowhere! Talk to me!
Mia: I can`t talk to you right now. I`m late for a meeting with my guidance counselor.
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: I`m late for a meeting with Spain and Portugal!
Helen Thermopolis: Mia, the-the three of us have to talk.
Mia: Oh, OK. Um, is there maybe something else about me and my life that just maybe I might want to know about? Um-oh no, are you two waiting to take me on a talk show somewhere and to let me know I have a twin sister who`s a duchess?
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: You have a cousin who`s a contessa. Fondly known as Bartholomew. Actually, we call him Pookie.
Helen Thermopolis: That Backstreet boy clone you`ve had a crush on for years?
Mia: Hey Joe? Can we park a block away from school? I really don`t want to cause a riot with this hearse.
Joe: This is a non-riot hearse. And if it were a hearse there would be silence in the backseat.
Mia: Hey, Joe?
Joe: Mm-Hmmm?
Mia: I`m gonna turn the backseat into a dressing room so I can change into a proper outfit for Madame, OK?
Joe: OK. And don`t forget your shoes.
Mia: Ahh, thanks.
Joe: Strange town, San Francisco. When I purchased the pumps, they asked if I wanted them wrapped or if I was going to wear them.
[plucking Mia`s eyebrows]
Paolo: If Brooke Shields married Groucho Marx their child would have your eyebrows!
Michael: Don`t worry about me. I just consider myself royally flushed.
Lilly: Is your mom dating an undertaker?
Paolo: Do you wear contact lenses?
Mia: Well I have them but I don`t really like to wear them.
Paolo: [breaks her glasses] Now you do.
Mia: You broke my glasses!
Paolo: You broke my brush.
Mia: [driving in the rain] Is this punishment for driving without a licensed driver in the front seat?
[lies down on the front seat]
Mia: I am invisible, and I am wet.
Mia: Tell me, how does my mother, or any person for that matter, go into a parent/teacher conference and come out with a date?
911 Nun: 911, I`d like to report an accident... They put me on hold!
911 Nun: Oh, for the love of God!
[trying to recall the names of Lana and friends]
Joe: Anna, Falana, Banana, Bandana, Montana...
Eduard Christoff Philippe GÈrard Renaldi, Prince of Genovia: Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
Vice Principal Gupta: [PA announcement] Will the Feng Shui Club please stop rearranging the tables on the lawn.
[first lines]
Helen Thermopolis: Time for school! Stop daydreaming, you`ll be late for school.
[last lines]
Joe: Princess, look out the window, and welcome to Genovia.
Fontana, Lana Thomas, Cheerleader Anna: Hey there, ho there, how do you do. This is Grove Lions sayin` hi to you.
Lana Thomas: I`m Lana.
Cheerleader Anna: Anna
Fontana: Fontana
Fontana, Lana Thomas, Cheerleader Anna: Go Lions!
Paolo: I love your eyebrows! We`ll call them Frida and Kahlo.
Joe: [speaking to Mia] Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Vice Principal Gupta: Gupta... mmhh... mmhh... mmhh. The Queen is coming... to Grove High School.
Lana Thomas: Stupid Cupid, you`re a real mean guy. I`d like to clip your wings so you can`t fly. I`m in love and it`s a crying shame. And I know you`re the one to blame. Hey Hey set me free. Stupid Cupid, stop picking on me.
Cheerleader Anna, Fontana: [backround singing] Stupid cupid.
student: [PA announcement] Remember, virtual homework may not be submitted for actual credit.
Mia: Now, what did you want to tell me?
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: Something that, I think, will have a very big impact upon your life.
Mia: I already have braces.
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: No, it`s bigger than orthodontia.
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: So, where are you taking me?
Mia: Well, uh, do you have any change?
Queen Clarisse Renaldi: No. It`s not appropriate for royalty to jingle.
Mia: Okay, I`ll get the change.
[cuts to a game arcade]
Joe: No matter how many times you press that button it will still go up and down the same way.
Mia: Somebody sat on me again.
Lilly: Michael, can you please pretend you have a life for just one moment?
Paolo: [removes Mia`s glasses] Do you wear contact lenses?
Mia: Oh, I have them, but I don`t like to wear them.
Paolo: Now...
[he breaks her glasses in half]
Paolo: ...you do.
Mia: [shocked] You broke my glasses!
Paolo: You broke my brush.
Lilly: The student body may be morally bankrupt, but that doesn`t mean they`re blind!
Trivia
This movie was filmed on Stage 2 in Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, the same stage in which the film Mary Poppins (1964) was shot. The stage has since been named in honor of Julie Andrews, who starred in both films.
The on-screen relationship between Queen Clarisse Renaldi (Julie Andrews) and Joseph (Hector Elizondo) was not scripted. The dance scene and the underlying affection was added by the two actors. According to Hector Elizondo, "We felt that a romance after 50 was important to tell and it can be sensual and sexy while keeping your clothes on."
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# The autograph seekers, Lilly and Charlotte, are director Garry Marshall`s twin granddaughters. Also, one of the buildings in the school was the "Lilly and Charlotte Grove Building."
Director Cameo: [Garry Marshall] guest at Genovia`s annual independence ball.
Cameo: [`Penny Marshall` ] guest at Genovia`s annual independence ball.
The scene where Mia trips and falls in the bleachers was real. Anne Hathaway had tripped while doing the scene, and director Garry Marshall thought it was funny, he inserted it in the final cut.
The Latin in the Genovia crest is best translated as "The whole body works".
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# Patrick Richwood, who played elevator operator Dennis in Pretty Woman (1990), appears as Mia`s next door neighbor and Allan Kent appears in both Pretty Woman (1990) and The Princess Diaries (2001) as a waiter who says the same line: "It happens all the time."
Hector Elizondo played basketball several hours solo in the rain for the few seconds shown in the movie.
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# Michael`s band, Fly Paper, is singing the song "Blueside" by Robert Schwartzman`s real band, Rooney. Though in Rooney, Schwartzman plays guitar and vocals, not keyboard and vocals.
While `Julie Andrews` (I) was making Mary Poppins (1964), she rented the house that Garry Marshall lived in while filming this movie.
Mia`s dress from the dinner party (the purple one) is a copy of the dress that Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden wore to the Nobel Prize gala in 1997.
Garry Marshall confessed that nearly all the film crew had a go on the fireman`s pole.
Anne Hathaway took rock climbing lessons for this movie.
The building that "portrays" Grove High School in the film is located at 2601 Lyon Street at Green, in San Francisco, California.
Mia and her mom live in the former Chemical Engine Company 43 at 724 Brazil Avenue, in San Francisco, California. The two-story frame Mission Revival-style firehouse was built (circa 1911) to provide fire protection to the Excelsior Homestead District. It was one of the first to leave behind the horse-drawn days for the newly fashioned motorized apparatus shipped from the east. The retired firehouse was sold at auction in 1976. The private residence still retains a large hose drying tower in back.
When Michael comes with Mia`s car, Mia is watching one of the deleted scenes from the movie.
It was Anne Hathaway`s idea to have the pore strip on her nose.
The egg chef in the kitchen during the rain sequence towards the end of the movie is young actor/producer Anthony Begonia.
The trolley that Mia rolls back into with her mustang is not a trolley or cable car but a tour bus. The tires of the bus can be seen in the shot.
While filming the final celebratory dance scene, the Madonna song "Like A Prayer" was played on a boom-box to elicit natural dancing from the actors on set (to be then dubbed over by the song that appears in the film`s final cut). The assistant director had to do multiple takes of this scene because the actors kept mouthing the words to "Like A Prayer" while on camera.
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# During shooting of tea scene in the garden and the greenhouse scene, airplanes were flying over the area and interfered with the sound. When the scenes were finished, the director gave Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews awards for "best acting in airplane interference".
During auditions, Anne Hathaway fell out of her chair, and was immediately given the part as clumsy Mia Thermopolis.
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# In the book, Mia`s father is not dead. Rather he has testicular cancer. In order to avoid what Disney thought was a too adult topic, he was just written as dead in the movie. In the book, when Mia shoves the ice cream on Lana, her father sticks up for her with her mother. Also in the book, the plot of Mia`s mother Helen dating her math teacher is a much bigger deal.
Anne Hathaway`s movie debut.
Mia`s cat, Fat Louie, was Anne Hathaway`s pet in real life.
There were four different cats used to play the role of Fat Louie. One who allowed people to carry it, one who could sit still, another who would jump and the last one who sits on the envelope at the end of the movie.
Cinderella reference: Mia is late (for meeting with her grandmother) and is running across the lawn when she loses a shoe.
The piece of writing Mia recites when practicing speeches is part of one of Juliet`s soliloquy`s from Romeo and Juliet.
Several actors and actresses have worked on one of or both of the Princess Diaries movies and Pretty Woman (in roles both in front of and behind the cameras): Hector Elizondo, Judith Baldwin, Julie Paris, Harvey Keenan, Scott Marshall*, Kathleen Marshall*, Don Feldstein, Patrick Richwood, Marvin Braverman, Jeff Michalski, Steve Restivo, Larry Miller, Allan Kent, Tracy Reiner*, Mychael Bates, and Charles Minsky. *Note the last name of these people.
Jessica Biel reportedly turned down the role of Mia.
Anne Hathaway was hired for the role of Mia because Gary Marshall`s granddaughters saw her audition tape and said she had the best "princess hair.
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Robert Schwartzman
(as Michael Moscovitz)
with Anne Hathaway
(as Princess Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis)
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