The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

I've used opera in a lot in my movies,

I'd heard that you can make people laugh in opera,

[But in one big way, movies and opera are not alike.] The budget for 'The Grand Duchess' was $2 million, ... The budget for 'Runaway Bride' was $72 million.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.