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Maureen O'Hara Quote: 'I really wanted to be an ...'

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Profession: Actress
Nationality: Irish
Birthday: August 17, 1920

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I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.


Baz Luhrmann
I can hit baritone notes, and I can sing in the soprano range if I wanted to. I did this thing a long time ago where I did a duet with myself. I sound like two different people.
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I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.


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I was champion soprano of Sussex when I was 16!


Lesley Manville
My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
Bar Paly
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I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
Rufus Wainwright
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I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.


Gemma Arterton
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My degree was in opera.


Kelli O'Hara
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A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.


Steven Berkoff
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The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.


Rudolf Bing
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Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.


John Eaton
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One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.


Katherine Kelly
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The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto, it is like a great orator.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'


Famke Janssen
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
Robert Ashley
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My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.
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Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.


Robert Gottlieb
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In opera, there is always too much singing.


Claude Debussy
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.


Kassie DePaiva
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