Salieri Quotes

#1. People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

Cecilia Bartoli

#2. As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

F. Murray Abraham

#3. I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.

Stephen Fry

#4. In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Maurice Baring

#5. I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.

Thomas Lennon

#6. Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

F. Murray Abraham

#7. I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

Robert Jay Lifton

#8. The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

Edward Hoagland

#9. At one point in my 20s, I was about to quit acting. I'd had a crappy couple of years and I was depressed. My mom said, 'Don't give up! You'll be so mad at yourself.'

Janel Moloney

#10. Love is a sacred spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

John Lasseter

#12. We should make politicians dress like race car drivers
when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

Jay Leno

#13. Hungary to the upper left, upper left, Serbia to the lower left, lower left. Bosnia on the bottom, on the bottom. Slovenia to the top, to the top. And where's Croatia?" "Where? Where?" Jacob sung. "It's next to the Adriatic Sea, across from Italy!

J. Lynn

#14. I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends
and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

Peter Shaffer

#15. In the choice between being loved and being honest, most of us choose the former. But

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