Words matter. These are the best Showmanship Quotes from famous people such as Dwayne Johnson, Vince Neil, Clyde Drexler, Roy Nelson, Stacey D’Erasmo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.
Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don’t look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.
My favorite player growing up was Julius Erving, because I loved the way he played above the rim, all of the tricks with the ball, big hands, and just phenomenal showmanship.
I guess there’s a showmanship in fighting.
As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I’ve been had.
I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.
Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic’s an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.
The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.
All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.
My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. His songwriting skills, I cannot even approach, but his showmanship, I learned it from videos.
There’s so much showmanship and gamesmanship involved in politics, it’s really not a stretch to imagine an actor getting involved in being a figurehead for a political party. But for myself personally, I just don’t think I could do that.
In the old days wrestling had a certain showmanship. All those people paid their dues. They knew how to wrestle.
I took tap and ballet, which likely contributed to my sense of rhythm and showmanship. I love creating music that gets people moving together, free of inhibitions.
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.
Pop is a little bit theatrical. That’s the whole vibe. That’s the point – is that it’s great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it’s a presentation. There’s a showmanship about it. And that’s why I wanted to be a pop star.
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.
I’ve never been ashamed of being the ham or the provocateur, as it were, in my style of commentary or my style of showmanship.
Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.
