Prima Donna Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year… — Peter Karmanos, Jr.
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant.… — Israel Albert Horowitz
It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these… — Demi Moore
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or… — Giuseppe Verdi
I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette. — Marie Dressler
It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old… — Tom Waits
I've been a prima-donna. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled,… — Mike Tyson
The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same… — Nigel Cole
I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a… — Kirsten Dunst
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts… — E. M. Forster
I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country.… — Artie Lange
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away… — Barbara Walters
In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it. — Toni Morrison
Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet. — Morris Chestnut
Somewhere in the brain of every prima donna there is a deep craving for security and comfort, linked with a fear of old age. This… — Andre Mertens
(Look around, look around) I look around, around, look around, look it over I take it up, up, take it out and take you nowhere… — Mariana's Trench
You know, say what you will about the ravages of sports in this corporate age where overpaid athletes expect prima donna treatment, but there is… — Mouth McFadden
You know, say what you will about the ravages of sports in this corporate age where overpaid athletes expect prima donna treatment, but there's still… — Mouth McFadden

Who Wrote These Prima Donna Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Prima Donna Quotes as follows: