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.
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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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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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.
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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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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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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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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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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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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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