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Quotes About Performance

A man should be what he can do.
~ Montgomery Clift
Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
~ Jeanne Moreau
Speech is the best show a man puts on.
~ Benjamin Lee Whorf
A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.
~ Zubin Mehta
Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.
~ Dave Chappelle
Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
~ Steve Martin
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
~ James Gandolfini
I'm a straight lady, the best in Hollywood. There is an art to playing the straight role. You must build up your man, but never top him, never steal the laughs.
~ Margaret Dumont
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
~ Robert Burns
I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.
~ Sebastian Bach
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
~ Bertolt Brecht
God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven.
~ Honore de Balzac
And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.
~ Lawrence Taylor
I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.
~ Gene Kelly
The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.
~ George Washington
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
~ Lionel Hampton
All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
~ Plato
I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.
~ Jonathan Winters
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.
~ David Henry Hwang
If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
~ Florence Griffith Joyner
Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'.
~ Bill Hicks
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
~ Charles de Gaulle
A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.
~ Henry Ford
WHOAAAA. THERE GOES CODY RHOOOOODESSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. WHOAAAA. YOU'RE ONLY SMOKE AND MIRRORSSSSSSS. What's up, man?
~ John Cena