Quotes About Showmanship

Half circus and half Supreme Court.

PBR Bulls are the talent, the cowboys are the props and both are tasked with putting on a great show for the audience

Sawing a lady in half is easy. Sawing a lady in half and then joining her up together again is less easy, but can be done with practice.

You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks.

The key is to be a personality outside of the ring and then bring that personality with you inside the ring.

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

I'm Liberace without a piano.

I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.

I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

I don't believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.

I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

I'm a big cat. I'm 6-5. I'm not worried about weight. Nobody's coming to see a weight fight. They're coming to see the Big Dog fight.

Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.

It is a magical feeling to perform for 50,000 people. You decide when they cheer and when they are quiet. It's like you have them under your control.

I'm Chi Chi, and everybody knows when I get on stage, it's magical.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.

Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?