We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
The circus leaves a sweet memory.
Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again.
I'm shocked to be saying this, but as a child, I never went to a circus. It cost too much.
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.
My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.
When you do a 'messa di voce,' that means you start soft, you crescendo into loud - and then you go back to soft again. Some people call it circus tricks, but in bel canto, it's really written into the music.
It would've been hard to do something else, to as it were, run away from the circus and become an accountant.
We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.
You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.
For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.
The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.
I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, 'You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.'
When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.
We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.
I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.
If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.
I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.
On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.
I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
Damn everything but the circus.
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
My job is to make the case that I'll do the best job possible representing the people of Georgia's Sixth District, and what they want is representation that's focused on them and not this national partisan political circus.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.
A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
What happened was, my parents after 'Circus Boy' decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
My first tour I did was The Warped Tour, and I was likening myself to the bearded lady at the circus because not only was I an actor touring, doing rock n' roll, but I was also a female front person making really muscular, male-dominated rock music.
I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.
What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.