ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.

I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!

It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the sense of projection over a distance as in an opera house. We have this microphone and this magnifies all details of a performance, all exaggerations. In the theater, you can get away with a very large, very grand phrase. For the microphone, you have to tone it down. It's the same as making a film, your gestures will be seen in close-up, so they cannot be exaggerated as they would be in a theater.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best.