Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

Read something no one is reading, think something no one is thinking, and do something no one is doing.

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.

One thing I hear from fans is, 'My Dad's got one foot in the grave, and he wants to see the Pirates win ' I've heard that more than anything. That's our goal.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

On the Vanna White diet, you only eat what you can spell.

I love film. I am very blessed to be making movies.

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.