I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I’ve done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
John Cena – say what you want about the guy, but he is unbelievable in every aspect of WWE: what he does with kids from Make-A-Wish and to how he controls a ring and a crowd in the moment.
The crowd’s a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.
Johnny Wrestling, to me, isn’t just a cool nickname or a fun thing for the crowd to chant. To me, it’s a state of mind, and it’s just who I am. I first stepped foot in a wrestling ring when I was 8 years old.
It took me forever to get comfortable. When I first started NXT, we had promo classes, and I used to get so upset because I couldn’t get in front of a crowd and talk. I was terrified.
I’m an anarchist. I’m implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.
In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.
There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.
When you’re literally staring at the person right in front of you, you’re connecting with them on a personal level. I even jump into the crowd sometimes and perform with them, sing into the mic with them and share the experience with them.
I like that message for my own children that you don’t have to go with the flow, go with the crowd. That you can be your own person. You can be an individual, and that’s valid, and that’s important.
That anonymity that comes with talking in front of a crowd of people you’ve never met allows you to reveal anything, because you don’t really have to associate with any one of them.
I just want to unify people. A crowd full of people singing one song… that doesn’t derive from anything dishonest… It’s someone’s truth.
Chennai is one of the scariest crowds to face. Everyone looks so conservative, but once you crack the first joke, they are so appreciatively loud that they will hit you with a laugh that will scare you stiff and yet give you energy. Chennaiites give me the loudest laughs; it’s the coolest crowd to perform for.
I used to think interacting with people in the audience, touching people in the crowd, was a total ego-based thing. I never realized how fulfilling it would be. It’s more about being on the receiving end – it’s people giving. That’s a powerful realization.
Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
The crowd is everything in my life. I just love the fans, and I also have a lot of respect for them. They’ve given me everything I have in my life.
I’m a lot more comfortable on the field than I am talking in front of a crowd.
I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
Even if it’s a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
The FIS, BSF, and British Olympic Association have been trying to stop me competing internationally. They don’t like the fact that I laugh and have fun and entertain the crowd.
Anyone can be a DJ but it’s understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.
I’ve literally never seen a crowd react to a band the way they react to the Polysics. Signing them to MySpace Records was an obvious choice. I wanted to be the person to bring this seasoned band to a new culture and audience. I’m really proud of them.
Sometimes I forget to shake hands with the other manager. I apologise. I’m learning, but I have a very good relationship with my players and also the crowd.
As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don’t feel that.
I don’t feel like a dork, but I certainly have many moments of nerdism, and I embrace it wholeheartedly. I’ve always cottoned to that crowd more, anyway.
Ocampo is very dangerous because he has nothing to lose. I want a guy who’s going to test me so the crowd gets its money’s worth.
I don’t like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don’t like to do old stuff. So I do very, very little of it.
When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn’t developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd.
I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
If I’m paying money to come to see you, you shouldn’t look like everybody else in the crowd.
I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That’s why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
The argument by the anti-gay-marriage crowd is so absurd, so internally contradictory, and so awash in unproven assertions that it is difficult to take it as anything more than a construct cobbled together by people who just don’t like those people.
As a DJ, I’m really focused on the crowd. I never play the same set. I always look at the crowd, try to read what they want, and always look at the signs, point at people.
When you play football, you want to see something like a trick play or something that is very exciting. You want to give the crowd something to be happy about.
I’m one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I’m not looking for attention.
Before I won ‘American Idol,’ I’d never been in a professional studio at all. I’m getting more used to it. I’m really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It’s easier than singing in front of 2.
Sometimes the energy of the crowd also catches on to you.
The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.
I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I’m in a crowd of people and they’re all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It’s a strange dichotomy.
Dark matches are usually off-camera. Sometimes you don’t even wrestle in front of the crowd, you wrestle in front of the agents – but my first match with WCW was on a pay-per-view.
Everybody knows that at a Freedia show, you’re definitely going to have some crowd participation, and they’re anticipating and waiting for that moment.
I’m really not one of those deejays who go, ‘I play music that I like.’ I play it for the crowd. I believe that’s what a deejay should do.
One of my favourite things to do is compete for a crowd. It’s just really fun for me.
When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn’t always follow you, do they, right? You pat yourself on your sanctimonious back but it doesn’t mean the crowd rewards you for doing what you think is right.
Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don’t look at it like, you know, ‘This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.’ If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.
I didn’t see how wearing prosthetics was quite so different from being born with flaming red hair in a crowd of black-haired babies, or being of a different religion from that of every other child in your area.
I was at a Dolly Parton concert when I was about 9 years old. I saw her at the Ohio State Fair, and it was my first real concert that I’d been to. I saw that crowd and how they reacted and how great of a performer she was and the band. Just the energy of the whole thing collectively really captured me.
There are men and women still on the streets, and that’s all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives – and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. That’s why it’s my favorite city. You can do what you want without attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it’s not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.
I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it’s making noise.
I can move any crowd.
I want to eventually get to a point where I can make all types of music for every type of crowd.
