My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason as any other to go quietly.
Lord Harewood
When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow`s chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
John Ruskin
Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o`clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20
David Randolph
Critics complained it wasn`t opera, it wasn`t a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.
Rouben Mamoulian
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I`ve left the opera house.
Maria Callas
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I`ve left the opera house.
Maria Callas
I wouldn`t mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking
Frank Lloyd Wright
I wouldn`t mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking
Frank Lloyd Wright
In the 8th Grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let`s face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn`t want to translate myself in that direct...
Robert Davi
In the 8th Grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let`s face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn`t want to translate myself in that direct...
Robert Davi
Something Wild was my first movie. I was in an acting class and on a soap opera for three-and-a-half years in New York - I moved to L.A. at 25 and nothing was really going on for like a five-year period. I was still in acting class, I was in class all thr...
Ray Liotta
It was my idea to just do The Electric Company" (1971) for a couple of years and go on. But, you get trapped by that money thing. It`s golden handcuffs. It gets a lot of people, including soap opera actors and commercial actors. Then, they don`t want to s...
Morgan Freeman
[on tabloid coverage of his life] It feels like being in a soap opera that you were unwittingly cast in and you have no choice about it. I get to watch my life like everyone else and think. "I can`t believe they did that". And, for whatever reason, you be...
Ben Affleck
Somewhere in the busy pipeline of public funding is sure to be a demand from a disabled lesbian on welfare that the Metropolitan Opera stage her rap version of Carmen as translated into Ebonics.
Charlton Heston
[Responding to fans, skeptical of his plan to direct an opera] I have no idea what I am doing. But incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.
Woody Allen
In high school I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play and I got the lead. And she helped me to get into a conservatory, with a scholarship ...
Forest Whitaker
The trajectory of my particular soap opera with the press launched from that statement Elton made about eighteen months ago when Elton hadn`t seen me for years. Elton said he thought I was really miserable for some reason. From that point on I`ve been try...
George Michael
[on her audition with Andrew Lloyd Webber for The Phantom of the Opera (2004)] He had the most magnificent apartment I had ever seen and I was floored by it. I went in and started vocalizing with the accompanist and Andrew walked in as we were preparing. ...
Emmy Rossum
[On Hollywood] "To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony."
Billie Burke
It was quite an adjustment to me. Before Full House" (1987) my roles were mostly serious soap opera parts playing evil characters. Now I was a squeaky clean morning show host from Nebraska on a TGIF sitcom."
Lori Loughlin
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
Kevin Kline
My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason as any other to go quietly.
Lord Harewood
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