Quotes About Showmanship

I think one of the things that the people, the fans, know about me is that every time I step in the ring, I give everything I have to entertain everyone that's spent their hard-earned dollars on a ticket for a WWE event. I think that's apparent.

If people took the time to leave their homes and bought a ticket with their hard-earned cash to see me perform, the least I could do was give it everything I had every time out.

People don't come to see the tigers; they come to see me.

Every night, I don't care if I'm doing interviews that day or photo shoots that day, what's most important is that I'm making sure I'm right and tight for the show. These people all come out to see me, so I have to perform and make sure that they never forget it.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

Despite being the Most Likely on a list of The Rock Stars Most Likely to Croak ..., Keith has outlasted ex-bandmates, ex-drug buddies and, so he claims, several of his own doctors. Yet as the man himself observes, Every day of my life is show business. Start him up ...

Leadership was partly showmanship, and Westy neglected no means of projecting confidence, strength, and moxie.

In reality the ego is like the clown in the circus, who is always putting in his oar to make the audience think that whatever happens is his doing.

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

Showmanship, that's what it was. What kind of a God would need it?

I've played pianos, I've jumped on pianos, I've fallen off pianos and I've pushed a piano into the crowd, hit a member of the audience with it and spent the rest of the night frantically apologizing to them.

A nation of unimpressible philosophers would not care at all how the externals of life were managed. Who is the showman is not material unless you care about the show.

The Joker Wait'll they get a load of ME

My job was to entertain. I've always seen myself in the entertainment realm.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

I just want to go out there and have fun and entertain the crowd!

In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.

I'm here to put on a show.

Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

Ric Flair, as great was and a hard worker as he was, he just tends to get lost in the ring.

I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.