"When I got the contract at Paramount, they weren’t interested in my singing. ‘We’re not MGM’ they would say. I got to play evil ladies.”
Dorothy Parker, Tristan & Isolde told anew, Schumann, Audra McDonald and the finale of LACO's 50th Season
"It's really my attitude: if I want to be defeated by this I'm going to be. If I want to grow past this, I can, too."
"I think that I still don't have a great sense of what I can and cannot do. I love taking risks and I love being allowed to take those risks."
"You can feel in the power and beauty of the music for Rigoletto that he could have been a loving, openhearted person."
