Fede Alvarez Quotes

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

I can bring a crowd down. There should be a contest for that.

Being able to control a live crowd at the ESPYs, that's fun.

That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.

People think our business is this completely fictional world of big guys in tight clothes with no brains. That's not the way it is; this is a psychology-driven business. You have to take people on an emotional ride without using words.

In the grand spectrum of things in WWE, you are wrestling for that camera and that camera and that camera - and all the cameras they have - and you have to make things work that way because, through that camera, there's a million people watching.

The first rock stars were incredibly theatrical. Little Richard and Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley - they were theater artists.

Acting is a big ambition, but I still have a professional wrestling world to conquer.

When something special happens in wrestling, it's that much more special to me and for me to go, 'That was awesome,' because I'm as bitter as there is, so if you can get me to go, 'Woah, that was cool,' a couple of times, it's a special show.

Taking off my shirt has become a part of my life, whether it is at award ceremonies or reality shows. As long as people enjoy it, why not?

I've done theater most of my career, and I get to see the reaction of the audience right after the show.

Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels.

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.

You can call us what you want, but at the end of the day, we're entertainers.

I've kept evolving the character. At first, you hated Goldust with a passion, then you laughed with him.

My goal is go out, try and be an entertainer, try to have the best match I can but be smart about it. If people are enjoying it, enjoying what I'm doing, then that's awesome because I'm enjoying what I'm doing, and I'm very passionate about what I'm doing.

In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.

In the ring, you want every one of the 80,000 people in the building to know what you're feeling. On a movie set, every expression you make is going to get picked up times 10. They kept having to dial me back.

One of the things I love about music and making beats is making something and watching someone's reaction, knowing you can do something to manipulate the way people move or act.

Drag queens don't work well outside. We're designed for spotlights, not sunlight.