Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
MARIA CALLASDon’t come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can’t make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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Don’t come to me with your troubles. I have to work for my money and you are young enough to work too. If you can’t make enough money to live on you can jump out of the window or drown yourself.
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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 will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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It’s a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven’t.
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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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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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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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Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
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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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