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For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world, with a real gift for invention: attention-demanding performance artists with a flamboyant, compelling sense of their own importance so special and inimitable it verges on the alien.

— Grace Jones

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

— Patti LaBelle

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

— Jessie J

I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can't only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it's fun.

— Monica Bellucci

I am not a diva: I am a Jones. 'Diva' is so overused. Diva, icons, the whole thing, legends... To be a diva, what is that?

— Grace Jones

I love divas. Madonna, Mariah, Beyonce, Britney.

— Andy Cohen

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

— Jenifer Lewis

That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.

— Jordin Sparks

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

— Adrian Grenier

I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

— Xavier Dolan

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.

— Glenn Close