Prima Donnas Quotes

• Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

  George S. Patton

  Successful, Treated, Commanders

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• Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

  Barbara Walters

  Success, Nice, Women

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• A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Ideas, Engineering

  "Disturbing the Universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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• Well, I'm not sure I know what you mean by a prima donna, but if something doesn't interest me or if someone bores me, or if I think they're a phony, I just don't bother with them, that's
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  Bobby Fischer

  Mean, Thinking, Phony

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• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  E. M. Forster

  Funny, Beauty, Humor

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.134, RosettaBooks

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• One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.

  Edward Albee

  Made, Theater, Distortion

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Ohio, People, World

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• We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Nine

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• 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

  Taken, Risk, Want

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• You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Crazy, Order, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Vampires are such prima donnas.

  Magnus

  Vampire

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• Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

  Dan Rather

  Business, Literature, Egomaniacs

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• I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.

  Mike Tyson

  Hurt, Jobs, Crazy

  "Tyson: 'My whole life has been a waste'" by Jon Saraceno, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 2, 2005.

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• It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

  Tom Waits

  Travel, Night, Flames

  Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco

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

  Marie Dressler

  Ugly, Homely

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Hands, Opera, Tenors

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• It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good.

  Demi Moore

  People, Working Together, Sycophants

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• There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.

  Mike Royer

  Book, Direct Sales, Different

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• 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

  Heart, Knack, Lines

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

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Opera, Kind

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I was looking right into her face when my mother died'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.

  Artie Lange

  Running, Country, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Book, Feminist, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hey, pretty thing," he said. "What's in the bag?" "Holy water," said Jace, reappearing beside her as if he'd been conjured up like a genie. A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. "Oooh, a Shadowhunter," said the vampire. "Scary." With a wink he melted back into the crowd. "Vampires are such prima donnas," Magnus sighed from the doorway. "Honestly, I don't know why I have these parties." "Because of your cat," Clary reminded him. Magnus perked up. "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sarcastic, Attitude, Party

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• The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both become quite tractable and are great glamorizers for leftover foods.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Cooking, World, Culinary

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