Thomas Howes Quotes

I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.

I love doing stunts.

Stunts are really fun.

I did clown training for months.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

I never liked miming.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun.

I'm a really good juggler.

Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

All the things I do in my videos - the jumps, twirls and back bends - will also be onstage.

When I wasn't wrestling, I was always at the circus or at a show watching all these people - 'how do they make their stuff work for their audience?' That used to fascinate me as a child.

The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.

Take into consideration I get to play-fight in my underwear every week, and I get paid very well to do it.

Wrestling really is kind of the highest form of theater.

A good comedian has to be a fine actor all around.

I'm working in theater. I did not grow up loving or even knowing anything about it, except for 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and 'Tommy.' But I love it. It's such a great collaborative thing.

Naked acrobatics are on my resume.

I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.