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Prom Quotes

I’ve had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.

– Hope Solo

I’m a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

– Hunter Hayes

I was a busy kid in high school – a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

– John Legend

The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date.

– Adora Svitak

Prom was awesome. I had such a great time at prom.

– AnnaSophia Robb

When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls – and I didn’t have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

– Iman

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

– Adora Svitak

Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.

– Andy Richter

I’ve never actually been to prom.

– Austin Butler

I’ve never been to a black-tie thing in my life. I didn’t even go to my prom.

– Andrea Barrett

I’ll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.

– Brande Roderick

I didn’t go to prom – I was homeschooled.

– Brie Larson

I’d never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don’t think they knew where to put me.

– Alicia Witt

If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she’ll come back.

– Betsey Johnson

I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.

– Andy Richter

At the senior prom for my Catholic boarding school, I was feeling manly, so I shaved, even though I didn’t need to. Being inexperienced, I managed to slice a quarter-inch gash into my lower chin a half hour before I picked up my date.

– Christopher Buckley

I was pretty much a homebody; didn’t really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.

– Michael Rosenbaum

Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, I’ve kinda gotten over, I guess I’m saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

– Matthew Tobin Anderson

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

– Cameron Monaghan

I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls.

– Delta Burke

I think the prom is very serious also. It’s an American ritual, it’s a rite of passage, and it’s very much a part of this country.

– Mary Ellen Mark

I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn’t go to the prom with them.

– Davy Jones

I’d never bought a bottle of cologne in my life, never dabbled in Drakkar Noir before the big high school date or Polo before the prom.

– Michael Paterniti

I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

– Crystal Reed

You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a ‘regular person.’

– Donny Osmond

During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera – which is logistically complicated – and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it.

– Mary Ellen Mark

I’ll probably never go to prom. I haven’t ever been to a high school dance.

– Cassie Steele

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

– Mary Ellen Mark

‘Prom’ is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers’ lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.

– Cameron Monaghan

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.

– Mary-Kate Olsen

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