My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because… — James Gray Copy Share Image
It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it.… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi Björling did it. His voice was unique and… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have… — Rouben Mamoulian Copy Share Image
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
It would be nice to wake up and be able to walk to the bathroom. But even when I was 20 and… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is.… — Cab Calloway Copy Share Image
My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back… — Jessie Reyez Copy Share Image
If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but… — William Monahan 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 still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along… — Raymond Bonner Copy Share Image
My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I… — David Canary Copy Share Image
Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
I am rooted in flamenco. At 13, I fell in love with it, but I couldn't sing it. To sing flamenco is… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
Before Bianca?? I don't remember that far back! That would've been in my teens. I was working in local theater and opera,… — Bianca Del Rio Copy Share Image
I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I… — Owen Benjamin Copy Share Image
I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it.… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here.… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I never learned music. I'm quite uneducated, and usually I sat in front of the TV, with soap operas on, in England.… — Graham Parker Copy Share Image
[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, one of my roommates my freshman year was a big opera fan. I had… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
![“My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.” quote by Ian Somerhalder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcd/ian-somerhalder-2439_grandmother_my-grandmother-was-this-unbelievably-sma_1726764.jpg)
![“Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.” quote by Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/dave-barry-222_accounts_note-that-both-of-these-papers-the-new-y_1034535.png)
![“[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e4/van-morrison-1192_art_rock-n-roll-is-still-a-primitive-form-an_465023.jpg)
