Opera Quotes

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Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and… — Paul Bailey
Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And… — Billy Bob Thornton
My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up. — Chaka Khan
I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a… — Christopher Lee
If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role. — Judy Garland
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. — Jennifer Garner
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to… — Frank Gehry
Reality TV has totally destroyed soap operas. They're gone. They used to be the biggest thing in the world - they're gone. — Gilbert Gottfried
There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. — Josh Groban
I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they… — Joan Collins
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. — Mason Cooley
My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio… — Francis Ford Coppola
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong… — Noel Coward
'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all… — Timothy Dalton
My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I… — Claire Danes
In opera, there is always too much singing. — Claude Debussy
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy. — Alan Dershowitz
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could… — Umberto Eco
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and… — James Fenton
A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at… — Renee Fleming

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