If you’re very introverted, you prefer to spend much of your time alone, and when you do connect, you’d rather get together with one or two close friends than face a crowd.
About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.
Vegas has the Whitman’s Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn’t shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
The adrenaline of performing on stage to a crowd – there’s nothing like it.
You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That’s the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
There is nothing better than having your home crowd cheer you on and scream with you in big moments and get the crowd in the pulse of the game.
When we go out there, I want to be the act that, no matter who’s in that crowd, they’ve never seen a better act than me. I’m gonna empty the tank.
I’ve walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you’ll reach out to shake their hand and they’ve got a camera in their hand. And they don’t even get their hand out, because they’re recording the whole time.
Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd’s not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.
When I tell a foreign audience that 90 per cent of Indian women have no access to sanitary napkin, there is a visible disbelief. But there is hardly a ripple when I say the same thing to an Indian crowd.
‘A Face in the Crowd’ is Elia Kazan’s forgotten movie.
So every day I’m mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.
To concentrate intensely for 4 and a half hours, that’s too hard for me. Too tiring. I concentrate ‘lo maximo’ on the ‘golpe,’ the stroke, but between strokes I’m interacting with the crowd or laughing with my caddie, talking about the spectators, the cute girls.
In China, they appreciate someone who has worked hard. They say it is incredible to win seven world championships. I know it is, but it’s a shame I have to go 10,000 miles to get the whole crowd behind me.
It takes a special conviction to decide to go against the crowd and to know what is right and to act upon it.
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I’ll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.
The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It’s good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it’s so nice to be back here.
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
I think the crowds in Europe are songwriter crowds. Like, they are a fan of the words, and they’re there to listen. An American crowd, they’re there to get rowdy, man. And I love both.
There’s one part of the forest in Wales, it’s like a natural bowl, and when we drove into it last time, it was getting dark. And as you came over the hill you could see fireworks being set off, the whole place was lit up and you could see this huge crowd all jumping up and down and cheering.
I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that mix is a lot of what has kept me going and kept people fired up about the music.
Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn’t have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.
When I was just coming up, I always wanted to be able to perform to a large crowd with a symphony.
I don’t own an ounce of the work I’ve ever done on ‘Batman,’ and I still work on ‘Batman.’ I love the character, I think it’s a lot of fun, and it’s kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you’re seeing a different crowd.
You’re playing for yourself. And if you’re not playing for yourself, you’re an entertainer, doing it for the crowd.
I definitely post a lot of memes and content that’s isolated to Twitter that I wouldn’t be able to do on stage because a live crowd doesn’t have that same frame of reference.
I’m gonna tell y’all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It’s so schizophrenic.
I’m always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.
Well, here’s my feeling about shtick. I think sometimes if you don’t have it going on too much, you’re probably feeling insecure and then you want to add on the shtick. I would say, oh, like Kiss. You try to stand out from the crowd, you’re going for a bold statement, you’re going for a high concept.
I am very tall, and when you’re a teenager, you want to be like everyone else. I used to slump a lot; it’s very human at that stage to want to be part of the crowd and not want any part of you that is sticking out.
When I’m doing a set as an artist I’m right in front of the stage the entire time, interacting with the crowd. The DJ set’s a little different but they both are great and high energy for the crowd.
Going to places like Tynecastle, where you’re so close to the crowd, you get reminded how ugly you are and stuff like that!
Oney Lorcan is such a hard-hitting dude, just like me. We go in there, two hard-hitting dudes, and the crowd are going to be taken aback, and that’s our goal.
When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
I always dream about that type of moment. In my head, I always kind of create that scenario, just about, like, some type of winning shot or block that’s going to, like, really get the crowd into it.
You have to know your crowd. And adjust accordingly.
I never cake someone who doesn’t want to be caked – at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I’m pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who wants to get caked. If you don’t want to get caked, shake your head or tell me you don’t want to get caked. It’s that easy.
I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don’t hang with the cool crowd.
You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the ‘can’t be done-ers.’
The kind of support we have in Oklahoma City, it’s the best in the NBA. Phenomenal. Beards in the crowd, the whole nine. The city is really something special.
When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: ‘put your hands up or make some noise,’ they just did it.
What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you’re running too fast.
The New York crowd is definitely one to voice their opinion. They can be very loud and boisterous.
Of course I’ve had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I’ve had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I’ve also had six stitches in my head.
I make sure I do only audience-friendly films that can be watched with children and the elderly crowd.
Be willing to use yourself to get out there and put the company on the market. If you have to make a fool of yourself, make a fool of yourself, but make sure that you end up on the front pages, not the back pages. In time, it’s possible that your company will stand out from the crowd, and you’ll be successful.
Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.
Chloe Sevigny always dresses appropriately but doesn’t blend in with the crowd.
Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the ’50s. Not everybody, but in my milieu. My crowd. You went to college, and you got a degree in case, God forbid, you ever had to work. And you better find somebody to marry while you’re there, because otherwise, what’s going to become of you?
You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.
I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it’s going to be harder.
