Gimmick Quotes

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

You gotta have a gimmick.

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to 'Eye of the Tiger' and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like 'Oh, that works.'

No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.