Entertaining the Crowd Quotes

When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

The trick is for Divas to find what works for them. I've done some ridiculous stuff in my career, but there's still nothing that's gotten a reaction as big as me skipping around the ring.

When I get on the stage, I try to connect with the fans and offer them the best of the best. I want them to see it as a music journey.

We used to approach a small 400-person show like an arena show, as if I was a star and I was coming out on stage in front of screaming people and that I was to be larger than life.

When it's my show, I know that everybody is there to see me - but I like a challenge, and I like the fact that at festivals not everybody is there to see me, but I have the chance to convert people.

The whole thing about me being The Showstopper - and Mr. WrestleMania - is that it was something I said once, and it took on a life of its own from there. Truthfully, I think the idea of going out and stealing the show is something you ought to do every time you wrestle. But if you focus only on that element, you end up doing almost too much.

I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.

You try to stay in the moment and act like you're singing the song for the first time. You try to have a good time yourself. That's the most important thing. If you're having a good time, people will join you.

I act for my fans. I expect them to enjoy my performance rather than starting fan clubs.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

I like getting requests from audience members.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

One thing that I have noticed is that whatever be the function, however poignant or serious, the audience always prefers a speech laced with a bit of humor.

My thing is to get up there and have a good time and give the fans all you can and appreciate them spending their money and being in the stands - and just be appreciative of them cheering when you come onstage.

The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.

I always give the audience a variety because I want to make sure they hear the favorites and all that.

The biggest moment in our business is when you walk through that curtain, and if you don't believe in yourself, the fans won't believe in you or invest in you, and they see that.

You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.

When I came up, it was Macho Man and all these other guys, and you had to come up with your own stuff. If you didn't come up with your own stuff, you weren't getting over.