Opera Quotes · Page 21

“What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five?…

— Terry Pratchett

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been…

— Mark Twain

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and…

— David Harewood

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer.…

— David Sedaris

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

— Jencarlos Canela

I never had a burning desire to have children. But then I met Nick, and I thought, 'This is the only person…

— Megan Mullally

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera.

— Stefano Langone

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called…

— Dustin Hoffman

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

— David Markson

I never dreamed of writing for concert or opera. I always dreamed, if I was a composer, to write music for films.

— Alexandre Desplat

And whether or not you're interested in opera or classical music or folk music or the theatre, I think that for a…

— Lesley Sharp

I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.

— Joel Kinnaman

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

— Jeff MacNelly

I have the greatest fans. I have fans that come from soap opera world, I have fans that come from superhero world,…

— Justin Hartley

Really, the impetus driving me is I've always sung, but I like to act, I like drama, I like text, which is…

— Lauren Worsham

Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

— Clive Rowe

There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true…

— Jessye Norman

I have a lot of projects I get asked for, but the opera house really is my house - my home. It's…

— Jake Heggie

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the…

— Cab Calloway

I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So…

— Lizz Wright

I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

— Dave Barry

Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour…

— Howard Jacobson

My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.

— Jose Jose

The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true…

— Zola Jesus

We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures…

— Maureen Dowd