When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It’s always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you’re upset about the people who didn’t show up. It’s called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn’t have an act.
When I perform and the crowd is cheering, there’s a ringing noise in my head. I’m just zoned in, and even though I know there are people watching me, all I hear is this ringing inside of me.
If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you’ve got to swallow it.
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.
A lot of celebrities who come on WWE, they don’t know what to expect. And sometimes our crowd and our fans eat them up.
My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
At a grand evening service in a church, my concerto created such a furor that the worshippers rushed out to keep the crowd outside the church quiet.
I’ve had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don’t want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.
The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that’s the big revelation about, ‘Oh, that’s what they’re doing.’ They’re just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He’s speaking for you, because people in the crowd don’t have a voice, so that’s what really makes it compelling.
I don’t think us going out in the crowd would be a good idea. I think that we’d be torn apart limb from limb.
It’s something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy – that idea of someone who is always trying to get in there with the right crowd, always trying to be a certain type of person and never managing it.
That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn’t believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?
There’s not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half.
It’s hard to get people up and out to shows, but ‘The Walworth Farce’ has masses of energy and will attract a crowd who don’t always come to the theatre, which is great.
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It’s more work and more good work. That’s it. People will have their opinion regardless.
Sometimes that kind of last-ditch tackle can get the crowd excited, and you get a push from that. It’s important to play with that psychological side of the game, but it depends on the quality of the player.
When I first fought in the U.S., the size of the crowd was something I was not used to seeing, but you get used to it.
In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don’t like people sitting down.
With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart’s pure. I can’t do anything. I really can’t do anything. I don’t know what goes on in the crowd.
When you’re on tour, you’re trying to get the crowd involved and really sing and perform to them. When you’re going to write and be in the studio, it’s like, ‘Now I have to think about me.’ That’s the mind-set you have to work with.
Libraries have a PR problem – or at least that’s what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.
When I’m forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it’s all I can do to refrain from attack.
I like getting up in front of an audience. It’s fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can’t deny it. And it’s very funny, too. Sometimes you’re shy; you go somewhere and everyone’s looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.
The crowd is a pretty good indicator when it’s good, because it’s kind of a universal energy that gets passed around.
I don’t think there’s anything that defines WrestleMania more than Hulk Hogan and The Rock standing across from each other and the crowd going ballistic.
Considering the fact that I have been in the spotlight more or less since I was 18, there is an aspect of normality to my public profile, which I have grown to live with. As much as I would like to disappear into the crowd, my work won’t let me – difficult as it is for my family.
I like playing in front of the crowd and get them into it.
I draw a younger crowd who can relate to me. Some of the girl fans will message me online, saying, ‘You’re the reason I watch golf.’
For Alkaline Trio, Chicago is our hometown. The band started there. Even though we all live in different cities now, we still call Chicago home, and it’s always really exciting to come back and play for our best crowd.
You’re in there, you’re having a match, and you’re feeding off that crowd. That’s the gasoline that fuels the match, and that’s how you make your decisions. If you’re not listening to that crowd when you’re working, you’re missing the biggest part of what working is all about.
Dunk, and people anywhere will ooh and aah. But you can wow a crowd in New York with ball handling and passing.
Doing DJ sets is like – is difficult to me. Cause you have to find that happy medium of playing what the crowd wants and what you want.
I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense of reason. I’m talking the ‘my computer wallpaper is my dog,’ ‘I hang a Christmas stocking for my cat’ crowd.
I know what happens every time I get in front of a UK crowd – they just go nuts and they are so nice and excited and crazy and they won’t sit down.
The aggregate of everybody’s emotion, it’s such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people – I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people – are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they’re outside of themselves.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
I love to produce a track and then play it for the crowd; that’s the biggest kick for me!
I’m very grateful that I have one of those faces that seems to blend back into the crowd. A lot of people pay lip service to wanting a normal life, but it’s actually very important to me.
I’ve actually enjoyed pitching on the road in the postseason. You go out there, and you’re getting booed, and it’s fun to try to silence the crowd.
The crowd makes the ballgame.
It’s not about the stuff. The issue is how we use that stuff and how do we train people to use that stuff. Do we use that stuff to confront people who are protesting in a community? Do we use a sniper rifle to see closer in a crowd? That’s where it breaks down.
I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.
Being able to control a live crowd at the ESPYs, that’s fun.
When you’re out on the touchline, like a winger, it is easier to play. You see everything: the mess, the crowd, the activity is all inside. When you play inside, you don’t see anything in there because so much is happening in such a small space and all around you.
Typically, in a live-action format, when you watch a wrestling show, you’ve got wrestlers in a ring in front of a thousand, five thousand, ten thousand people, and they’re playing to large crowd, so you never really get that intimate, close and personal dialogue with them.
I was directing before I started doing ‘The IT Crowd.’ It wasn’t something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.
It’s the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
The most fun moments are being on the stage and seeing how the crowd reacts to your music. The energy of the crowd that makes you just want to go in and keep doing it and be a part of this forever.
We had an incident back in 2001 where our drummer threw out a drumstick into the crowd and it hit someone in the eye and they were going to sue us. You just always have to be really careful with that kind of stuff.
I went to an all-boys school and hated feeling like one of the crowd.
Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.
It’s never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering.
