Quotes About Showmanship

A show isn't just a show, a show is entertainment; it's modeling, acting, singing and dancing all ripped into one, with the little time that we have to do it.

There's not many crazy guitar instrumentalists out there that put on a crazy monster show.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

are the Cheerios smiling bravely, insisting that the show must go on?

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.

Why use a spell, where mummer's tricks will serve?

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.

When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business.

The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work.

Any type of Royal Rumble or battle royal I always look forward to because I usually get to do some pretty cool things.

Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.

I wanted to develop a hypnosis show that no-one had ever seen before, so I made it very topical and interesting. I've created a UFC fight night every night on stage, where I hypnotise twenty people into thinking they're mad, crazed UFC fans, and the energy is unbelievable.

'Ring of Honor' is extreme... probably one of my favorite matches I ever saw. I don't remember the name of the guys, but it was unbelievable... it was almost like Stone Cold and Bret Hart when they had their 'I Quit' match.

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

If we had to pick our group's specialty, it would be performance.

From Julia Child to 'The Galloping Gourmet' and the Food Channel and Cooking Channel, our fascination with the spectacle of cooking has been a mainstay of TV entertainment.

I try to put on a show while being effective because the spectators come to be entertained by beautiful play.

Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.

There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.

I like to do the splits onstage.

I can sing, I can act, my physical comedy is on point. I can do the splits.