Nellie Melba Quotes

#1. Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Trust God with your love life, and buckle up for the ride!

Paula Hendricks

#3. The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good ... I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'

Toby Jones

#4. One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

Nellie Melba

#5. Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

Dave Barry

#6. Do everything yourself.

Nellie Melba

#7. If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Nellie Melba

#8. If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

Nellie Melba

#9. There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

Nellie Melba

#10. You won't be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don't worry! It's a good sign!

Nellie Melba

#11. The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Nellie Melba

#12. Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

Nellie Melba

#13. What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

Nellie Melba

#14. Always sing below your potential.

Nellie Melba

#15. As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.

Patrick Huard