Sopranos Quotes - Page 3

• The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

  George Clooney

  Running, Government, Pipeline

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

  Lucy Liu

  Ifs

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• 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

  Opportunity, Hbo, Long

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

  Steve Lacy

  Play, Pieces, Saxophone

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• The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sight, Hug, Modern

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• He was trying to be everywhere at once," the redhead told the human. "Trying to make sure Alice had nothing to do, actually." He shook his head as he looked at the tiny blackhaired girl. "Alice doesn‘t need anyone‘s help." The vampire named Alice shot a glare at Jasper. "Overprotective fool," she said in her clear soprano voice. Jasper met her stare with a half smile, seeming to forget for a second that I existed.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Voice, Vampire

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• I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Want, Tvs

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• Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

  Steve Lacy

  Trying, Firsts, Saxophone

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• Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Voice, People

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• I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

  Steve Lacy

  Years, Imagination, Up To You

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• And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

  Alexandra Potter

  Heart, Glasses, Sound

  Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'

  Sarah Shahi

  Years, Two, Attention

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• Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

  Rob Sheffield

  America, Twenties, Would Be

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• Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

  Ann Patchett

  Would Be, Outcomes

  Ann Patchett (2009). “Bel Canto”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.

  Rob Sheffield

  Memorable, Character, Long

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• It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

  Klaus Nomi

  Germany, Opera, Falsetto

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• I've been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I've even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You're waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn't need to be there.

  Drea de Matteo

  Son, Thinking, Funeral

  Source: collider.com

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• The director of The Sopranos told me that, if I wouldn't gain weight, I would lose my job. I didn't look like the girl who ate pasta all day. This was an extra stimulation to fight my eating problems.

  Jamie Lynn Sigler

  Girl, Jobs, Fighting

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• They killed me in The Sopranos. I went to David Chase, and I said, "Why me? I'm a detective! You can use me forever!" And he told me, "John, there's a rule in television: Somebody has to die that the audience likes."

  John Heard

  Forever, Why Me, Using Me

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• I was never really that worried about being a member of the Sopranos crew. I think it looks kind of fun to not have to work, to not have to take crap from anybody. And then there's the reality check in there, which is that you do have to work, you do have to take crap from people, and you can fail, and all these other things.

  Matthew Weiner

  Fun, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't want to pretend like I'm clairvoyant or anything, but I had a tremendous sense of malaise about our political future. This is right around the millennium, right around 1999, when I wrote it. The Sopranos certainly reflected that; when I saw that on the air, I was like "Oh my God, I'm not alone." But it doesn't seem that the culture really caught up with that. George W. Bush won two elections... I'm not even trying to say this from a political standpoint. I think there is a resonance to the kind of glory of that period, and the foreboding of what happened.

  Matthew Weiner

  Thinking, Political, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Responsibility, Order

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". The final debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry at Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.

  Alexander Chee

  Boys, Voice, Singing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I hardly ever belted; I was a soprano and a comedienne and intended on doing mostly soprano legit roles but my first equity show, to my surprise, was Blues in The Night at The Cleveland Playhouse.

  Erica Schroeder

  Night, Firsts, Cleveland

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My role is almost a sight-gag. I have to be a woman to sing the lyrics "I am a man" to have it be a joke. I start the lyric in a male-register and a whole coloratura up into a soprano. And other points in the show... like the guy who likes to be treated like a baby and wear a diaper!

  Max von Essen

  Baby, Men, Sight

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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