Salieri Quotes

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.