John Cena Quotes

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

Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's actually farthest from the truth. When I'm on stage, I'm that confident and that cocky because I have a microphone in my hand, and there's a few thousand people staring at me. And I know they're there to laugh.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.

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

I know I'm not much on face value, but when it comes to stage value, I'll deliver for you.

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

Your job as a superstar is to manipulate the audience and try to tell your story. I like the dynamic of the audience.

It would be nonsense to try to suggest that somebody who tried to rouse 2,000 people to their feet - which is what I used to do at conference - doesn't have any element of exhibitionism about them.

You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.

I have been giving live performances since childhood, and I continue to do so professionally.

Stand up is the most stressful, and hosting and presenting a show has its own stresses, because you've got an audience which you've got to entertain as well as an audience at home.

I remember feeling the energy of people. That stuck with me. Understanding that I could stand behind a mic and captivate people. I was always obsessed with that.

I've got a bad rap for not being more charismatic between songs.

I study entertainment and apply it to myself to one day become the greatest WWE superstar we have, and it's a lot of work. So I write jokes and material every day... you have to keep people's attention, one way or another.

My father was an entertainer, and he knew what he was doing.

I can move any crowd.

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