Top 19 Quotes About Prima Donnas
#1. All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
George S. Patton
#2. Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
Dan Rather
#3. We weren't treated as prima-donnas. We had to roll up our sleeves and graft with the groundsman. Kids don't have to do anymore. That makes you appreciate things when it turns in your favour and you become a successful professional.
Colin Cooper
#4. There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women who were prima donnas were feminists and incredible forces for their time.
Rufus Wainwright
#5. She said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.
Ilsa J. Bick
#6. Vampires are such prima donnas,
Magnus
#8. Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.
Queen Elizabeth II
#9. Remember, the Muse favors working stiffs. She hates prima donnas. To the gods the supreme sin is not rape or murder, but pride. To think of yourself as a mercenary, a gun for hire, implants the proper humility. It purges pride and preciousness.
Steven Pressfield
#10. I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.
Marie Dressler
#11. I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
Eva Zeisel
#12. Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
Len Wein
#13. People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.
John Dos Passos
#14. In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.
Samuel Johnson
#15. Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn't called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you'll get every wish you ever had. It'll all come true.
Morgan Freeman
#16. They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.
Philip K. Dick
#17. When everything is going wrong, it seems like nothing goes right
Gary Speed
#18. There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
Bruce Lipton
#19. It would be one hell of an addition to someone's scrapbook. (Dark City Lights)
Bill Bernico
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