Only my dogs will not betray me.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.