- Marchesa Bianca San Giovanni: And that is just the trouble, it is nothing but an organ. It is as cold and as passionless as one of these American iceboxes. Let me tell you a secret; no woman can ever be a great artist without love, without passion, without a great inside flame in her heart. If she were really an artist, she would sing with more than her voice, she would sing with her heart and her soul and her body. I did!
- Marchesa Bianca San Giovanni: Sweet old king Constantine.
- [Chuckles]
- Marchesa Bianca San Giovanni: He used to say to me: "Bianca, darling, you are not singing with your voice. You are singing with," uh... Well, never mind what he thought it was I was singing with.