I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.
MARIA CALLASWhen the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
More Maria Callas Quotes
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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 the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.
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First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis.
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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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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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When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
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I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!
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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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I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
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Only when I was singing did I feel loved.
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I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.
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I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
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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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On stage, I am in the dark.
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