Female Leading Performer

Famous quotes containing the words female, leading and/or performer:

“I wonder what subtle form of manslaughter is next on the program. Am I to be dropped into a vat of molten steel and become part of a new skyscraper, or are you going to ask this female to kiss me again and poison me to death?”
—Ernest Lehman (b.1920)

“I shouldn’t say I’m looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don’t know what normal is. This has been normal for me.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being “somebody,” to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)