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.
MARIA CALLASOn stage, I am in the dark.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
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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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To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.
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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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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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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.
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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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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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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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Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
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Real 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.
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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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Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.
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