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Quotes About Performance

I'm not really a flashy dunker or a show dunker unless somebody's in front of me. That's the only time I really get wide-eyed: when I can dunk on somebody. If it's a wide-open dunk, I've never been the type to dunk it real hard wide-open and scream.
~ JaVale McGee
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
~ Elaine Stritch
If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.
~ Joan Sutherland
Whatever women do in life, they must do it twice as good as men in order to be considered as half as qualified. Fortunately, that's not very difficult.
~ Charlotte Whitton
Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so
~ William Redington Hewlett
If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.
~ Susan Polgar
Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.
~ John Steinbeck
Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.
~ John Barbirolli
I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?
~ RuPaul
There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
~ Felicity Kendal
Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.
~ Kamala Harris
If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!
~ Terry Pratchett
I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.
~ Serena Williams
When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.
~ Judd Nelson
In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.
~ Michelle Bachelet
Men and women are very different athletes, and frankly, I didn't want to deal with the male potential.
~ Twyla Tharp
As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.
~ Anne-Marie Duff
My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.
~ Christian Louboutin
Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.
~ Dov Davidoff
I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.
~ Emilio Estevez
If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good.
~ Helen Wills
I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.
~ Holland Taylor