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Quotes About Performance

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.
~ George Balanchine
Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
~ Janis Joplin
There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.
~ Stirling Moss
Any man who looks like a sissy while dancing is just a lousy dancer.
~ Gene Kelly
The American drummer is a one-man percussion orchestra.
~ Max Roach
We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
~ Judith Butler
Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.
~ Theresa May
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
~ William Hazlitt
The Man of a Thousand Voices
~ Mel Blanc
What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.
~ Layne Staley
No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
~ Buster Keaton
Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost
~ Rubin Carter
Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.
~ Brent Musburger
Men expect too much, do too little.
~ Allen Tate
A tenor is not a man but a disease.
~ Hans von Bulow
A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.
~ Bill Shankly
I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me I believe in my dance-- And my destiny
~ Sam Shepard
The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?
~ Melvin B. Tolson
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.
~ Aimé Césaire
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
~ Moliere
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
~ Charles Erwin Wilson
I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.
~ Brian Johnson
Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.
~ Anthony Quinn
Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
~ Adam Lambert