Quotes About Circus Performers

#1. I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

Laura Benanti

#2. Circus performers and variety shows will never captivate me in the same way as steppes or rainforests, or the sky's uncountable galaxies and all the billions of light years that separate them.

Jostein Gaarder

#3. We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

Axl Rose

#4. There are never any victims who don't matter, because this isn't about men versus women.

Laura Bates

#5. Since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

Henry James

#6. Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown ... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.

Gertrude The Great

#7. Vagabond Circus was about change. It moved from place to place, and reconfigured based on available performers. The ringmaster loved that about the circus. "Without change, we are dead," he often said.

Sarah Noffke

#8. I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.

Tony Curtis

#9. When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

Edward R. Murrow

#10. Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Sophocles

#11. Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed.

Meghan Daum

#12. All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we do. But we are dancers. We have to express and we have to project.

Luis De La Fuente