Theatrics Quotes

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

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

There was no better entrance in history than The Ultimate Warrior. It was the greatest entrance between the music that had that guitar riff, and that face paint, and the tassels, and the gear. It was the greatest!

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.

The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.

Think of Donald Trump's personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd third-grade theatrics. We have long referred to him as 'The Donald.' He is the only person in America to whom we have added an article before his name. It wasn't because he had attributes we admired.

My dad is not a sports guy but was drawn to the theatrics of wrestling.

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

Flamboyance causes people to notice you—particularly press people.

There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater.

I was a natural drama queen when I was younger. I was always doing impersonations and showing off.

I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.

Although boxing is a sport, it's still entertainment. You've still got the fear, press conferences, the stare-downs. It's all an act in some ways. My whole life I've been doing it. I love this side of boxing - as much as the actual fight.

I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.

'Maury' and 'Jerry Springer' get so theatrical that it's hard to believe.

The Catholic theatrics are pretty high quality, but the Protestants have better hymns.

When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.