I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
Not every show needs to reach the same size of audience, or same width, of a ‘Sopranos,'
There are exactly four sopranos on the planet who have sung that music. I know Tom's music well, so I knew who these sopranos were.
So when we're watching The Sopranos in reruns ten years from now, on a big-screen, it will still look good.
If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.
Even the biggest hits, even The Sopranos on HBO, even Desperate Housewives is 20 million viewers. We're in a country of . . . 297 million people, almost 300 million. That's a pretty small chunk of it.
I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera? A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.
I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.