Choices Quote by Robert Davi

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.

— Danielle de Niese

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for…

— Cab Calloway

When I was trying to create this so-called Lav Diaz verité, it just happened. At some point, I became very comfortable with the one…

— Lav Diaz

There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same time, so…

— Dustin Hoffman

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up…

— Joseph Addison

My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender… You cannot make an opera audience believe that a…

— Maria Jeritza

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the…

— Sarah Caldwell

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

— Kenneth Clark

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

— Maureen O'Hara

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

— Tom Stoppard

I had felt for some time that audience involvement with a film should begin with its first frame.

— Saul Bass