Mae West Quotes

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.

I don't mind being a bit of a showman.

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

Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head.

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

I'm Liberace without a piano.

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable - onstage, talking, making 'em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.

Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.

I put on a little bit more makeup when I perform.

I do think there is a bit of Liberace in me.

It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.

I want the people to be able to see me and be able to see a great performance.

There were people that grabbed you just by talking, and that's what I loved about professional wrestling when I started out. That's why I'm already so good. That's why people literally hang on the edge of their seats when I have a mic because they want to know what I'm going to say.

I don't suppose I would describe myself as a showman.

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

Some of my fans want me to just dance and go crazy and wear flashy outfits.

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.