Quotes About Showmanship

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.

In sports entertainment, you can be larger than life.

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.

I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man... he was amazing!

Liberace was a lovely guy.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

I can sell a fight, make no mistake.

SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY—ANGRY, JOWLY, AND PERPETUALLY indignant—had the instincts of a Mussolini, but without the intellectual foundation. Like Il Duce, he was a showman who loved politics and craved power. Unlike him, he began his public life largely ignorant of policy.

Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it.

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

You think you're funny! You think you're funny Cena, huh? The only pose you're going to be doing tonight is lying on your back with me on top!

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.

Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.

Sure, I'm flamboyant. I can afford to be--I'm a damn good lawyer. You've got to ring the bell to get the people into the temple.

For Trump, as for many showmen or press release entrepreneurs, the enemy of everything is complexity and red tape, and the solution for everything is cutting corners. Bypass or ignore the difficulties; just move in a straight line to the vision, which, if it's bold enough, or grandiose enough, will sell itself.

He gave more moves than Mae West!

The candidates hit the floor like Travolta, ready with their moves, knowing that the spotlight is going to find them and illuminate every glistening thing: both sequins and sweat.

The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.

Come one, come all! Prepare to be amazed by the one, the only - Mairelon the Magician!

I was onstage. And there is nowhere in the world I am more comfortable than on a stage.

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.