324 Opera Quotes for You to Enjoy

I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a conscientious singer is never sure of himself or of anything. He is ever in the hands of Destiny. Enrico Caruso

When I was very little, I was sort of consumed by a love for opera. Weirdly enough, I went from being really enthusiastic about construction vehicles at the age of seven to being really passionate about 'La Traviata' by the time I was eight. Ezra Miller

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.' Famke Janssen

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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera. Ford Frick

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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 at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph. Francis Ford Coppola

It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. Francois Nars

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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 Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. Frank Gehry

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The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline. Frank Grillo

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I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera. Fritz Lang

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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person. Gael Garcia Bernal

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I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD. Gemma Arterton

Seen Only Never Opera Been

I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them. Gene Luen Yang

I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera. George Gaynes

Opera Opera Singer Singer Left Acting Reasons

My problem is, whether it's for emotion or for the talents that a character has to have in a role, I find it very difficult to not take on a challenge. For instance, 'Phantom Of The Opera,' in truth, scared the crap out of me, but I wasn't going to walk away and say, 'I didn't do that because I didn't believe in myself.' Gerard Butler

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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. Gian Carlo Menotti

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It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role. Gian Carlo Menotti

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera. Gian Carlo Menotti

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My first time on camera was 'One Life to Live.' I mourn for actors coming up that the daytime soap opera is becoming extinct. It's theater onscreen. Gina Torres

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Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater. Graeme Murphy

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Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it. Graham Elliot

Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera. Greta Gerwig

Own Everybody Opera Always Middle

The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles. Harrison Birtwistle

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I always believed 'The Fly' to be a classic opera story. It's a tale of love and death, true love surviving in the face of physical decay and ultimate sacrifice. Howard Shore

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My grandad was an opera singer, my uncle a jazz musician; I was a boy soprano in the church choir. But the first performance with Deep Purple was something I'll never forget. All elements were working brilliantly. Ian Gillan

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I've played football with George Best, the greatest footballer that ever lived. That doesn't make me a footballer. And I've sung a duet with Pavarotti. That doesn't make me an opera singer. I can write and I have a story to tell, but I'm not going to make a career out of it. Ian Gillan

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