Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera folk music Broadway. It's a mix of things.

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff I love classical music and I needed a time-out.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems seeing a painting listening to some music some opera which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop classical and opera.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

No good opera plot can be sensible for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV when you live with horror day in and day out you have to protect yourself.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

It's rather naive apart from being ethically objectionable to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool and I never looked back.