A Quote by Rufus Wainwright

Prima Donna is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

Rufus Wainwright

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Rufus Wainwright
Canadian - Musician
Born: July 22, 1973

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.

Rufus Wainwright

There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women who were prima donnas were feminists and incredible forces for their time.

Rufus Wainwright

I don't want to be in a locker room with someone that we draft that's kind of a prima donna or, you know, thinks they're bigger than the team. Those are two things that I don't do well with.

George Kittle

I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.

Gail Godwin

There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!

William Wyler

I am not a prima donna. It's just that I feel cold on the bench.

Toni Kukoc

Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet.

Morris Chestnut

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

Mauro Ranallo

I've never had any prima donna attitude against me. It's always been very respectful.

Rey Mysterio

Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.

Jerry Leiber

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

Toni Morrison

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.

Giuseppe Verdi

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

Rufus Wainwright

I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.

Marie Dressler

I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.