Ron Pope Quotes

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

People buy a ticket to see your show, so from the moment I get onstage, I can have no insecurities, because they're already there. You have to get people to listen. If they listen, everything's cool.

I'm not like a performer type.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.

When I was 20, I used to go around telling stories, and I knew where I was comfortable - onstage, talking, making 'em laugh and listen to the weirdest things. I liked being the center of attention.

Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.

I was always a performer.

I just love engaging a live audience - I love that.

Ever since I was a kid, I loved being up in front of people. I loved making people laugh; I never had any stage fright.

I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that's what it is. I'm a crowd pleaser.

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

I believe in entertaining the audiences with whatever I do.

There were people that grabbed you just by talking, and that's what I loved about professional wrestling when I started out. That's why I'm already so good. That's why people literally hang on the edge of their seats when I have a mic because they want to know what I'm going to say.

I pride myself on the energy I put on stage.

I find that I get most of the same things I loved about performing in the ring when I do my live shows around the world.

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

I figured, 'Why not go into entertainment?' I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.