#soprano

I really wanted to be an opera soprano. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#opera #really #soprano #wanted

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#books #comic #comic books #complex #create

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.' ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#chance #creative #development #emergence #experience

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#classically #herself #inspired #julie #julie andrews

I love to sing. I'm a soprano. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#i love #love #sing #soprano

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#classical #dance #like #sopranos #then

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream. ↗

— James Wolcott

#before #collective #culture #enriches #iconography

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body. ↗

— Stan Getz

#body #challenge #especially #far #goes

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#coming #goes #good #horn #i

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#going #see #shakespearean #sopranos #speaking