Jim Ross Quotes

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!

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 do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

We really do have a lot of personality in WWE. You have to, to be in this job. You showcase a lot of personality.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

You can teach anybody wrestling moves, hopefully, if they have an athletic bone in their body. However, the ones that are going to make money and be different are the ones with personality.

There have always been extraordinarily tough men in the business of sports-entertainment. My view is that one can't be in the sports-entertainment business successfully and long term without being tough.

I just go out there and be myself and turn up the voltage a little bit for entertainment value.

My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.

It all starts off on the field. In any sport, that's how you catch people's attention. From there, you kinda show your fans, your following, what kind of person you are and your personality. I let the field work do its work.

Watching somebody sing reveals a lot about character.

I think one of the things that really endeared me to people was that people got to view more aspects of my personality than most because of the different things that I did within WWE.

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

I'm always playing a role, whether it's the role of the mayor, the role of a news anchor, or a role of a crazy talk-show host. But there was a specific function. 'On Dancing With The Stars', I had nothing to do but be me, schlepping around the floor. And when I host 'America's Got Talent', that's really me just talking to regular folks.

I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.

The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

If you don't own the stage, you shouldn't be in rock n' roll.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

By the time I was five, I was a little diva.