Best Prima Donnas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Author:Magnus

“I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.”

Made Stills Home Given Fun Party Break Green Dinner Envy Recognition Indian Engagement Guests Smallest Popularity Buttons Ohio Yacht Prima Donnas

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“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.”

Want Kind Littles Taken Five Risk Minutes Ruins My Time Distraction Five Minutes Interruptions Prima Donnas

Author:Gail Godwin

“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.”

World Cooking Culinary Relative Acquaintance Prima Donnas

Author:Irma S. Rombauer

“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.”

Ifs Book Different Late Direct Comic Comic Book Dealer Prima Donnas Direct Sales

Author:Mike Royer

“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.”

Book Facts Force Incredibles Feminist Myth Great Book Prima Donnas

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“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.”

People Years Hard Lasts Order Bits Deals Progress Crazy Figures Hundred Europe Dramatic Sexist Over The Top Prima Donnas

Author:Rufus Wainwright

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

Kind Song Opera Kinds Of Love Prima Donnas

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“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.”

Heart Seems Able Lines My Heart Accomplish Shocked Retrospect Knack Prima Donnas

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“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.”

Made Whole Theater Careful Bunch Distortion Prima Donnas

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“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.”

Firsts Country Running Names Communist Castro Movie Sets Prima Donnas

Author:Artie Lange

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

Successful Treated Commanders Prima Donnas

Author:George S. Patton

“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.”

Way Two Success Women Nice Edges Memorable Insecurity Smooth Two Ways Nice Things Famous Inspirational Prima Donnas

Author:Barbara Walters

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

People World Reason Performances Seasons Convinced Theatrical Ohio Prima Donnas

Author:Toni Morrison

“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.”

“On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year the same money as Toronto is paying Mats Sundin or Pittsburgh is paying Jaromir Jagr.”

Years Lasts Goal Deals Pay Player Refuse Hockey Last Year Refusal Toronto Keith Pittsburgh Prima Donnas Pouting

Author:Peter Karmanos, Jr.

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

Games Difficult Wonderful Football Soccer Soccer Player Soccer Football Inspirational Soccer Motivational Soccer Soccer Motivation Soccer Game Soccer Is My Life Prima Donnas English Football Great Soccer

Author:Queen Elizabeth II

“The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are abundant. But never before has there been such a prima donna as Bobby. Already he has managed to alienate and offend almost everybody in the chess world. That includes officials, patrons, writers, almost everybody and anybody who might be in a position to help him in his career.”

World Has Beens Helping Might Careers Player Position Huge Ego Chess Vanity Officials Amazed Psychologist Legendary Patron Anecdotes Chess Players Prima Donnas

Author:Israel Albert Horowitz

“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.”

People Together Higher Complaining Working Together Offensive Complaints Sycophants Prima Donnas

Author:Demi Moore

“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.”

Persons Hands Opera Conductor Tenors Prima Donnas

Author:Giuseppe Verdi

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

Ugly Homely Prima Donnas

Author:Marie Dressler

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

Turns Literature Business Filled Including Performing Turn Me Egomaniacs Prima Donnas

Author:Dan Rather

“I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting.”

Problem Kids School Felt Acting Normal Seats Extroverts Cafeteria Prima Donnas

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“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.”

Persons Ideas Science Design Scientist Originals Programming Engineering Engineers Brilliant Ideas Original Ideas Civil Engineer Civil Engineering Prima Donnas Engineering Inspirational Scientists And Engineers

Author:Freeman Dyson

“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.”

Night Blood Streets Travel Wounds Heal Flames Shirts Hotel Perfume Whiskey Keepers Suitcases Battered Sweepers Prima Donnas

Book:The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983

Source: The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983

“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 all.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Mean Interest Bother Not Sure Bores Phony Prima Donnas

Author:Bobby Fischer

“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.”

People Knows Men Way Whole Bigs Care Today Wanted Jobs Hurt Know How Taken Crazy Streets Tough Slave Whole Life Boxing Mike Spoiled And Off Brat Prima Donnas Tough Man I Am The Way I Am

Author:Mike Tyson

“The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly.”

I Can Actors Found Difficult Nice Directors Hollywood Insane Producers Nonsense Ruined Very Nice Paranoid Prima Donnas

Author:Nigel Cole

“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.”

Looks Littles Doe Humor Funny Faces Emotion Accepting Beauty Too Much Position Ought Dues Suits Prima Donnas

Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel