Guy Laliberte Quotes

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

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

Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town to town making people smile.

In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.

What I love is to create a show and for people to enjoy it and be aware that's what it is: a show.

I was always a performer.

I really know how to sing and create and put things together that entertain... be it controversially or be it from music or acting.

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.

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.

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

I'm here to put on a show.

Wrestling has gotten so show-biz, it's to the point where people scoff at it.

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.

What I am used to is 'Gali Guleiyan,' and people talking about my performances, what new I have tried in terms of my craft or the skill of storytelling.

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.

It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.

I think it's really important for actors to add some shock value to whatever they do. I think the audience gets bored very easily, and it's really important to keep experimenting.

I always wanted to make the matches in some way different unique and interesting. I never wanted to have that basic match. I just wanted us to stand out in some way or another, whether it was storytelling or interesting wrestling moves.

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

That's part of show business: the moving.

'Miscast' is a family affair. It highlights so many different aspects of the industry in that one night, and it's a great evening.