Quotes About Showmanship

I love wrestling. I love WWE. I love being a part of something special every single night we go out there.

I think the great thing about the WWE universe is that they just love to see us perform.

Anyone that watches WWE realizes a lot of times we do big stuff. We're considered over the top.

When you're in WWE and you're in front of 16,000 screaming fans booing you or cheering you, you only have one take.

Loving entertainment but having our athletic talent, WWE seemed like the perfect fit for us.

No one has more charisma than me in WWE.

Once you learn how to work inside the ring - once you learn how to tell a story - then you can come to a big company like the WWE and learn the extra stuff, like the video, the pyro, the music, and that adds to everything you can do.

In the grand spectrum of things in WWE, you are wrestling for that camera and that camera and that camera - and all the cameras they have - and you have to make things work that way because, through that camera, there's a million people watching.

I really want to utilize my MMA knowledge in my WWE performance.

There is nothing more than the world to me than performing in front of the WWE Universe. So I would like to do it as long as I can. As long as they will have me.

All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

It's like a prize fighter. He knows he has a fight coming up, so he gets in the gym and trains. So when I have a show coming up, I practice yodeling.

As soon as the makeup comes on, I transform myself. I like being an entertainer and putting on a show.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

We're entertainers, not just singers!

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.

Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.

If you want to be the best gymnast in the world, you have to love the moment. Every single moment that you are competing. Every skill, you have to be showing it off. If you aren't showing it off, what are you doing?

The thing that I didn't take into consideration is that acting, like wrestling, is a skill.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.