Operatic Quotes

#1. I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.

Jason Patric

#2. If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Ciaran Hinds

#3. The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect operatic version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.

Shefali Tsabary

#4. Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence.

Quentin Tarantino

#5. No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

Thomas Beecham

#6. My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.

Olivia Newton-John

#7. You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

Andrea Bocelli

#8. It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

Jose Carreras

#9. Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.

Michael Sheen

#10. My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Brendon Urie

#11. I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage.

Francis Ford Coppola

#12. Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them? If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.

Bryan Fuller

#13. ( ... ) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

James Joyce

#14. The dwarfs were staring at Lady Sybil as she changed up through the gears into full, operatic voice. For an amateur soprano she had an impressive delivery and range, a touch too wobbly for the professional stage but exactly the kind of high coloratura to impress the dwarfs. Snow

Terry Pratchett

#15. I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

Cassie Steele

#16. I never pursued voice hard enough. I've done musicals here and there, but I was never dedicated to really being one of these fantastic, operatic kind of singers that you have to be in some of these musicals.

Allison Tolman

#17. When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and an oboist, but my voice isn't really classical in the operatic sense. But I certainly have a classical sensibility, so I'm comfortable being in that world.

Jason Graae

#18. I always think the villains in all of the Disney movies are almost operatic in scale.

Jonathan Freeman

#19. A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me."

Thomas Beecham

#20. I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

Zack Snyder

#21. I always hated 'O Holy Night.' It's so operatic and overwrought.

Sufjan Stevens

#22. These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

Vincent Bugliosi

#23. I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I was invited to sing, first of all, my operatic debut in Berlin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which was West Berlin at the time.

Jessye Norman

#24. The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.

James Gray

#25. I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

Marcel Proust

#26. It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

William H. Macy

#27. operatic tragedy began.

Louisa May Alcott

#28. Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love.
James Rollins

James Rollins

#29. You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.

Christopher Nolan

#30. Americans, they have an incredible operatic tradition: the Metropolitan Opera House is - if not the most prestigious - one of the most prestigious opera houses in the world for over 100 years.

Jose Carreras

#31. Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.

Renee Fleming

#32. I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

Martha Reeves