Quotes About Showmanship

I used to work over a bar. That was - there was no stage. I stood over a tiny bar. Louis Prima, rest his soul, he worked there. I was the guy that filled in when he was off the stage.

Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there... so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.

If you want to learn the secrets of any performer, see his show twice. Then you'll notice how much of what seems improvised truly is.

You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

I love the business of pro wrestling and it is something I know better than anything else I know about.

What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

At every Ozzfest show, there's horns and devils somewhere; there's some kind of darkness somewhere. But the thing is, this is a stage, homey, and those fools are entertainers. And you know what, it shows! It's fake.

I've always been a cabaret-vaudeville artist - an hourlong cabaret and a floor show in a hotel - somebody like that. That's my main forte.

You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

I brush my teeth with a Sonicare toothbrush before every show.

I'm a total performer.

I love to entertain an audience.

Politics remind me a lot of 'RuPaul's Drag Race.' It's real but it isn't.

For me, the show must go on - it doesn't matter how ill you are, you get on and do it.

Thereafter she saw his intellectual showmanship as a performance, deep down he could be as vulnerable as anyone

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!'

When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

Every time I perform, I always try to have that 'wow' factor.

Some people call me arrogant and boo me but I love it, because at least they're buying tickets. Meanwhile, other people are thinking, 'wow, this guy's different, I'll come and see him again.'

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.

I'm going to show you how we do it in New Japan Pro Wrestling. That's what you get whenever I wrestle, whoever's in the ring with me.

In wrestling, sports entertainment, I get to fight in front of people; I get to wrestle in front of people; I get to entertain people sometimes four times a week - all around the country, all around the world.