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Quotes About Spectacle

Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
~ Harold Prince
You can't get anything gayer than 'RuPaul's Drag Race!'
~ Michelle Visage
You have to give an element of performance on television.
~ Richard Quest
I always liked circuses, so I would have enjoyed that.
~ Lee Hazlewood
You either entertain an audience or you don't.
~ Twyla Tharp
We're not telling you we're out there fighting each other. We're going out there to entertain you.
~ Seth Rollins
I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to get their money's worth.
~ Tyson Kidd
I'd love to entertain people forever.
~ Logan Paul
Boxing is an entertainment, I have to entertain people.
~ Dereck Chisora
I just want to keep people entertained.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Fans want to see a fight and be entertained.
~ Kamaru Usman
I see myself as an entertainer.
~ Ben Mezrich
I like entertaining people. I want to make big entertainment.
~ Elizabeth Banks
We're in the entertainment business. As much as people would like to say it's sport, it's definitely entertainment.
~ Roy Nelson
We're in the entertainment business.
~ Henry Cejudo
I've pretty much been a wrestling fan my entire life.
~ Tyrus
So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified, one proclaiming the massacre to be the work of "bestial machinery.
~ Iris Chang
If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
~ Irwin Shaw
I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
~ J. J. Abrams
The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.
~ J. Patrick Lewis
People's bodies sticky with olive oil as they stand on an overcrowded beach looking at the gutter-like sea... [a] black spectacle [that] appears cruel and rather "accidental." [on his series "Accident 10: Sombre (Black) Sunday"]
~ Unknown
New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.
~ Damon Runyon
That was the point of Mardi Gras, was it not? To serve and honor all the people, to bring into hard lives a touch of royalty and grandeur....To put on a spectacle such as this, free of charge, was an honor. New Orleans was sick and wounded, but no other city in the world had a celebration quite like this. It was beautiful precisely because it was so frivolous.
~ Unknown
Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.
~ Richard Corliss