Celebrity Quotes

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

I think I will die laughing.

I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

I didn't like mundane life.

He who hugs too much, hugs badly!

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

All babies are beautiful.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season.

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.