I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

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• Maria Callas:

  First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

• Maria Callas:

  I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

• Maria Callas:

  I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

• Maria Callas:

  I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

• Maria Callas:

  Love is so much better when you're not married.

• Maria Callas:

  On stage, I am in the dark.

• Maria Callas:

  Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the

• Maria Callas:

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

• Maria Callas:

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

• Maria Callas:

  You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of