Quotes About Showmanship

I dazzle you with that footwork.

That's what TV has forgotten: how to entertain.

Entertainment is my forte.

Any of the shows I've ever fought on, they always want to have me back because I always have the fight of the night performance.

The audience can expect full-on entertainment from me.

Strapping Young Lad is a vehicle for me to be wild and extroverted and ridiculous. It gives me the chance to say, 'Look at me. I'm a heavy metal guy. I'm Rob Halford or Bruce Dickinson or whoever.'

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

I don't fight to win or lose. I fight to entertain people.

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

Football's about winning and I'm a winner, but you also have to set standards and entertain people.

I've had three Eurovision winners: two with Johnny Logan and one with Linda Martin and even Jedward did great, because 'Lipstick' was a great song and they had a great show. It was a great visual.

I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

I'm a really big fan of the history of wrestling.

Who do you know, who could come out on a flying carpet? P. Diddy standing at the bottom, come out like a concert, dancing, oozing confidence, and then get in and take somebody out? Come on, do you know anybody in the history of the sport that did what Prince Naseem did? I ain't trying to brag, but I was bloody good at it.

MMA is all about putting on a show and entertaining the fans, and that's the one thing I've known from the get-go.

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

I really want to pop the crowd. I want to show off. That is the one thing that I've always loved about my career is I just want to show off. I always hated the storylines.

That's the one thing I think I have figured out pretty decently well is I'm a performer. I've always been an entertainer; y'know, growing up, that's all I've ever done.

Crummy pictures, live appearances, circuses, avant garde theater, dinner theater. I've done it all. I've been shot out of cannons. I know what the people want. I'm out there with the people.

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

No matter where you play, a stadium or an arena, when you're present on stage, it's going to feel like a theater.

I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where I could play theaters.

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.