Gloria Steinem Quotes

I think I'd like to be a lion tamer, actually. That - that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.

If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.

It's theater now, not politics.

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

Don't give a speech. Put on a show.

If the most important thing for your project is to put on a circus, then you have less chance of winning things.

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

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

Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

In wrestling, sports entertainment, I get to fight in front of people; I get to wrestle in front of people; I get to entertain people sometimes four times a week - all around the country, all around the world.

Anything I do is as theatrical as I can get it.

It's always been about the live show for us. We're having Halloween onstage every night.

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.

My goal in wrestling was always to take people on a journey to get a reaction and make people feel like they had seen something special. Thankfully, I get reminded of that every day.

Wrestling is to go out there and perform and make people believe that either of the performers in the ring can win - either the bad guy or the good guy.

When I'm in the ring, I can hear the reactions and know the people are enjoying themselves.

Sometimes you experience magic out in the ring.

The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.

Actors are a peculiar breed.

You've got to sell fights; you've got to be entertaining.

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.

When the fans were watching my dad, you could never tell if this was real or is this fake, and that's what made him so special. Every ounce of energy went to being The Nature Boy.

Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.