76 Prima Donnas Quotes
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Famous Prima Donnas Quotes
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game. — Queen Elizabeth II
Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be. — Romario
Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired. — Jose Limon
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. — Robert Schumann
People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms. — Bo Burnham
Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them. — Gordon Ramsay
It is impossible to perform the opera without La Girò because it is impossible to find another prima donna of her caliber. — Antonio Vivaldi
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna. — Giuseppe Verdi
People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with. — Bruce Campbell
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls. — Bertolt Brecht
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it. — Shana Alexander
One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work — Dean Smith
People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell. — Susan Jaffe
In opera, there is always too much singing. — Claude Debussy
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? — Desmond Tutu
Short Prima Donnas Quotes
- A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. — James Crook
- There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. — Josh Groban
- Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine
- Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity! — Brian Tracy
- You have to be selfish to be an actor. — Charles Dance
- The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. — Pauline Kael
- Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't. — David Gill
- Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money. — Wim Wenders
Donna Quotes
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. — Barbara Walters
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. — Freeman Dyson
I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording. — Taylor Hawkins
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.' — Rob Sheffield
I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better. — Betsey Johnson
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated. — George S. Patton
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur. — Edward Albee
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48 hours, and replaced by reruns of the 'Donna Reed Show', there would not be one less death in South Central LA. At most you'd have several more incidents of people shooting out their TVs. — J. Michael Straczynski
It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too. — Tom Waits
Prima Quotes
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina. — Maria Tallchief
The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes. — Andrew Harvey
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas -- including this one. — Dan Rather
I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette. — Marie Dressler
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna. — E. M. Forster
The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. — Edward Robert Harrison
We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas. — Harry A. Blackmun
The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods. — Irma S. Rombauer
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish. — Peter Birks
On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year the same money as Toronto is paying Mats Sundin or Pittsburgh is paying Jaromir Jagr. — Peter Karmanos, Jr.
People Writing About Prima Donnas
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Queen Elizabeth II |
47 | 4020 |
 Romario |
21 | 48 |
 Robert Schumann |
59 | 694 |
 Bo Burnham |
123 | 2086 |
 Gordon Ramsay |
178 | 1189 |
 Giuseppe Verdi |
18 | 207 |
More Prima Donnas Quotes
I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home. — Unknown
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. — Barbara Walters
Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's all. — Bobby Fischer
In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it. — Toni Morrison
It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good... — Demi Moore
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
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. — E. M. Forster
These players are prima donnas. They need to educate themselves so they don't make such stupid remarks. — Richard Williams
Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet. — Morris Chestnut
In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that. — Rufus Wainwright
Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience. — Rufus Wainwright
You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist. — Rufus Wainwright
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
There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late. — Mike Royer
I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day. — Gail Godwin
Vampires are such prima donnas. — Magnus
The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly. — Nigel Cole
The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant. But never before has there been such a prima donna as Bobby. Already he has managed to alienate and offend almost everybody in the chess world. That includes officials, patrons, writers, almost everybody and anybody who might be in a position to help him in his career. — Israel Albert Horowitz
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