Quotes & Sayings About Evita

Fear is what created the monster in the room, and in order to overcome the many problems and enslavements that we have today, it is not about getting rid of the monster, but about getting rid of the fear. — Evita Ochel

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. — Evita Peron

You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire. — Evita Peron

I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows. — Evita Peron

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. — Evita Peron

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. — Evita Peron

I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see, if only for a day, what I see each day I help people. — Evita Peron

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have. — Evita Peron

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. — Evita Peron

In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it. — Andrew Lloyd Webber

Yoga does not start or end on your mat, but is present in every breath you take. — Evita Ochel

Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are. — Evita Ochel

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. — Glenda Jackson

I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway. — Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

Whether it is in your work, or your relationships, or your food choices, or your interaction with any part of nature, or anything that you think, speak, or do, mindfulness has the power to align you with expressing your highest Self, for your personal and our collective highest good.
Via mindfulness we can make the choices today, that will pre-pave the desired outcomes for all of our tomorrows. Via mindfulness we put ourselves in the flow of life, where life is no longer a series of "good" and "bad" moments, but about living with ease, contentment, wellbeing, and inner peace. Ultimately mindfulness requires action, with the first step being to make mindfulness a priority in your life. — Evita Ochel

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time. — Evita Peron

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with. — Evita Peron

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go . — Evita Peron

Our President has declared that the only privileged person in our country are the children. — Evita Peron

I'm interested in just about anything that's right for my voice, and that's a good fit for my personality in the part as well. 'Evita' has always been a dream part for me, but it's really, really high to sing. I'd love to do Elphaba - heck, I'd even do Glinda. For me, I'd do anything to get into 'Wicked!' — Lea Salonga

'Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing. — Elaine Paige

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already. — Ana Gasteyer

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation. — Evita Peron

If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing. — Evita Peron

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows. — Idina Menzel

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all — Evita Peron

When we assess someone's life or health on the basis of surface-level observations or passing comments, it presents us with a very flawed version of reality. — Evita Ochel

Time is my greatest enemy. — Evita Peron

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning. — Lea Michele

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything. — Evita Peron

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. — Evita Peron

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita. — Buck Bannister

One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism. — Evita Peron

My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre. — Madonna Ciccone

I want nothing for myself ... My glory is and always will be ... the banner of my people, and even if I leave shreds of my life on the wayside I know that you will gather them up in my name and carry them like a flag to victory. — Evita Peron

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. — Evita Peron

I will come again, and I will be millions. — Evita Peron

Put down me for a lifetime of success: give me credit, I'll find ways of paying. — Evita Peron

I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich. — Evita Peron

I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron. — Evita Peron

I am my own woman. — Evita Peron

The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. — Evita Peron

One of these days in the next 10 years, I will play 'Evita.' I don't know when or where, but I love 'Evita', especially with all my Latin and Spanish studies. It's a very demanding role but I'd love to play it. — Aileen Quinn

Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices. — Evita Ochel

I will return and I will be a million. — Evita Peron

1978 when she decided to contact Clinton. That's when events took a turn for the worse. As Christopher Andersen writes in American Evita: Juanita checked into Little Rock's Camelot — Victor Thorn

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow. — Evita Peron

I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people. — Evita Peron

sugar, a job. Tirelessly, Evita would listen, pull back the sleeve of her fur — Gregory Widen

In government, one actress is enough. — Evita Peron

'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself. — Harold Prince

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. — Evita Peron

Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are. — Evita Ochel

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game. — Evita Ochel

Suffer little children and come unto me. — Evita Peron