Spectacle Quotes

It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue, that one could well speak of a martyrdom of the evil man. In solitude all this falls away. He who is evil is at his most evil in solitude: which is where he is at his best - and thus to the eye of him who sees everywhere only a spectacle also at his most beautiful.

The people would be just as noisy if they were going to see me hanged.

Fans are always in for a treat when they see us in person.

Who cares about seeing 10,000 helicopter assaults? That's spectacle.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

The atmosphere and the first days of Test matches against Australia are incredible.

People love to be entertained and love the different storylines that go on in pro wrestling.

The great advantage of the circus, and the reason it is so popular, is really the ideal combination of art and sport. It's the ideal art form, in a certain way, if you want to be accessible.

Sometimes spectacular things look really great, but when push comes to shove come fifth round, the basics, fundamentals and technical aspects are going to come into effect.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

When you have lived through something as magical as the 2014 World Cup final, you want to relive that experience as many times as possible.

If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

You realize, as time goes on, there is a certain expectation now in 2018 where fans want to see cool, exciting, hard-hitting sports entertainment or hard-hitting pro wrestling, and there are ways to give them that without necessarily putting yourself in the hospital that night or not being able to move the next morning.

This isn't a competitive sport. Wrestling is not the NFL or the NHL. It's not really sports. It's entertainment. And in order to be entertaining, you have to create emotion. And you can't create emotion by simply having a wrestling match.

I just want to go out there and have fun and entertain the crowd!

You see on the night of a Champions League game. It is magic. It is total magic.

Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.