Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.