Quotes About Performance

I used to sit in my bedroom and think that all of my favourite pop stars go on stage, they sing, and then they do other normal stuff. I didn't know what goes on or what you let yourself in for.

We are not a boy band in the traditional sense. We don't dance or have synchronized moves. We are a pop-rock band.

In future, if I get a chance to perform, I will go for hip hop, locking and popping. Indian is definitely not for me.

Hannibal Buress keeps popping up. His delivery cracks me up. He's smart and funny.

I entered music at a poppy level.

Like a lot of the newer bands, like the more poppy kinda bands, although they make really good records and they produce them really great and everything, they don't really deliver onstage. And I think that's where like the heavier bands kinda score.

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

Pop concerts create an audience for Pops concerts, not an audience for classical symphonic concerts.

I'm not very interested in pops concerts. I'm interested in special events.

The voice is probably supposed to have some cracks and pops and some mistakes in it.

Top Of The Pops' was the show to be on. Youd go in in the afternoon, re-record the track for them, and then youd mime to the track that you cut that afternoon.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

A popular number from the movie Pedda Pedda' has become an instant hit and the audience is loving it.

I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.

The sense of popularity in an actor is essential.

I don't really care if people talk, I just want them to watch my fights. I'm really not in this for press or a popularity contest, I'm just here to fight.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.