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 CALLASReal friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they’re only made of sand.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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Love is so much better when you are not married.
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I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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On stage, I am in the dark.
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Only my dogs will not betray me.
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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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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 don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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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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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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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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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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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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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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