Quotes About Spectacle

Born in the silent era, with the first ceremony hosted by Douglas Fairbanks at the Roosevelt Hotel, the Oscars are a tradition in a business that doesn't have much of it, and the biggest spectacle in a business that's often nothing but.

The Super Bowl is an occasion that's really associated with abundance - lots of snacks, parties, spectacle - and so it would be great if there were also some kind of tradition of generosity attached to it as well.

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

My kid will come home from seeing the latest 'Transformers' movie, and I'll ask him, 'How was it?' 'Amazing!' 'What was it about?' 'I don't know, but it was amazing!'

What would be a bigger spectacle, a female with one shoe on or a well-dressed female with no shoes? This is New York so I said fuck it.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

take heed, for many wonders will be seen this day

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

He walked around the Las Vegas casino incredulous at the spectacle before him: seven thousand people, all of whom seemed delighted with the world as they found it. A society with deep, troubling economic problems had rigged itself to disguise those problems, and the chief beneficiaries of the deceit were its financial middlemen.

As Eisman had risen, Danny had sunk in his chair, instinctively. There is always the possibility of embarrassment, Danny said. But it's like watching a car crash. You can't not watch.

Singapore is a pretty special race with it being held at night; it makes a great show for the fans.

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.

I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

I love performing in Las Vegas.

I did see LES MIZ and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love CHICAGO, too.

I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly, it's the worst thing. It's just an incredible experience.

People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.

I really believe that professional wrestlers are not protected. I think everybody gets a big kick out of watching them and whether the wrestling is real or not, people love watching it.

Last on the bill, not least ladies and gentlemen. Here he is, back from the grave, back straight from the grave