The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?) — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
...For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the… — Teddy Sears Copy Share Image
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Every movie has the thing it's about, and then, deep down, it has this thing that it's really about. 'Star Wars' is… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and… — Dylan Bruce Copy Share Image
Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer… — Rudolf Bing Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was drown something enormous, like a Star Trek or Star Wars kind of space opera-type thing, but… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
“Giovanni always had music running through his head. Moments he experienced in life recalled for him scenes from operas. [Giovanni Tempesta]” — Vincent B. Chip LoCoco Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of operas. I've probably done more different kind of operas than anybody. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
