Opera Quotes · Page 27

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

— Mason Cooley

“The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song - This damn door sticks, This damn door sticks It sticks no matter…

— Terry Pratchett

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

— Rick Nielsen

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual…

— Jerome Lawrence

That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

— Groucho Marx

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

— Julie Taymor

It would be nice to wake up and be able to walk to the bathroom. But even when I was 20 and…

— Sylvie Guillem

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus…

— Rick Riordan

“Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.”

— Robert Greenberg

I just figured, 'I don't want to go to university anymore,' so I went to Stockholm. I went into this teaching school…

— Sofia Helin

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

— Slavoj Žižek

The FC Hollywood nickname came about because, when schools were out, we would have 10,000 fans turning up just to watch us…

— Owen Hargreaves

“Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement…

— Dimitris Mita

It's a special kind of acting, soap opera acting. It's hard for me.

— Amy Hill

I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap…

— Jerry Jones

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays…

— Brittany Murphy

I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays,…

— Sarah Ruhl

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

— Katherine Jenkins

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

— Marlene Dietrich

A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano…

— Ottorino Respighi

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

— Lou Reed

“Having considered Handel's tumultuous opera career and his first term at Covent Garden in the 1730s, perhaps we may dare to suggest…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can…

— Zola Jesus

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a…

— Nina Arianda