80s Quote by Baz Luhrmann Download Open image “In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.” — Baz Luhrmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 80s Groovy Opera Wanted
In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it. — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot… — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight. — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15.… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
But Opera Man, I go, 'Oh, crap! Why didn't I think of that?' Because I could sing fake opera pretty good. — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera. — James Gray Copy Share Image
I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
“Don't waste your time with jealousy. Some times your ahead, some times your behind. The race is long and in the end, it's only… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway. — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement.… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school. — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show… — Sheena Easton Copy Share Image
It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and… — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Since I was gay and loved disco music, it was kinda pre-programmed that my first experiences with house music and acid - which I… — Justus Kohncke Copy Share Image
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
My fashion was not the best in the '80s. I looked crazy as hell. I used to wear my pants tucked into my socks… — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and… — Robin Cook Copy Share Image
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