Quotes About Showmanship

For me, if we're going to have a guitar solo, it needs to be over the top.

You are a circus act all of your own and I cannot help but be your audience.

If it weren't for Liberace, there would be no Madonna or Lady Gaga, Elton John, Bette Midler, or Elvis because it was Liberace who helped the King glitz up his act.

I used to perform in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Cold Lake, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Camrose, Kamloops, Kelowna, Surrey, and all over Western Canada for Stampede Wrestling.

You're not going to get a seven-star match or six or five in a seven-minute segment, but I always do the best I can to make that segment memorable and entertaining, and I think that's always the name of the game.

I hate canceling anything, I'm 'the show must go on' mentality. If you can crawl, you can take the stage.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

Chilton went behind Dr. Lecter and, with a glance at the camera, undid the straps and removed the mask with a flourish. "Senator Martin, meet Dr. Hannibal Lecter." Seeing what Dr. Chilton had done for showmanship frightened Senator Martin as much as anything that had happened since her daughter disappeared. Any confidence she might have had in Chilton's judgment was replaced with the cold fear that he was a fool. She'd have to wing it.

Men are forced to resort to ridiculous displays of bravado in front of women.

When crossed with Yorkshire, Hampshire, or Chester White females, the Duroc breed can create some top-rung F1 females for producing butcher stock and show pigs.

People don't want to be healed. They want a nice juicy wound that will show well when they put neon lights around it.

You don't really see tight ends out here doing dances in the end zone. But if you see me at night out on the town, I'm having a good time - I'm always dancing. It started in the backyard, not to necessarily showboat - but to be a showman. It's part of how we grew up, how we played the game, and now that I'm in the NFL, why not break it out?

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.'

Some people make spectacles of themselves with a couple of glasses.

If you can mix glamor and gags, then you can catch the audience twice over.

Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.

When people come to see me, they'll see what they know me for. Hits from the past, but I always mix in a little something new. New stuff. Old stuff. It creates a great show. There's a lot of crowd participation. A lot of interaction and energy. That's what I do best.

My initial impulse was to be an entertainer, a song and dance man.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

Honesty is nothing more than a party trick, and you know how much I love to dance.

A salesperson who is an able showman can change the prospective buyer's mind from negative to positive.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

When you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing. But the fans don't know you screwed up unless you act like you just made a mistake.