On stage, I am in the dark.
MARIA CALLASI prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
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What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?
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ART is domination. It’s making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.
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My poor sight gives me an advantage. I can’t see the people in the audience who are scratching their heads while I am lost in my role and giving everything I have to the drama.
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The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.
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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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I was always too mature for my age – and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil’s means; great teachers foresee a pupil’s ends.
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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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