Richard Pound Quotes

Ticket sales will get higher the day after roasts.

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

I care about the box office, so that's why I go from town to town: because I want people to see it. I would give it for free; I just want those houses full of people watching it.

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced.

The whole point is it's about getting as many people to come and see the play as you can.

A stage show's popularity depends on its organisers and the public, but primarily on the performer.

Promoters do bigger numbers when Ken Shamrock's name is on the card.

The WWE is based on, I think, reaction. You know, if you can't get a reaction, that means you can't put butts in the seats.

It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories.

Everybody wants a big crowd. You get amazed sometimes with certain things that millions of people are watching and you go, "Serious?! Really?!" And then, there are things that you really, really enjoy and not a lot of people are watching. It's very, very hard to predict how it works.

A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at them. And a bad DJ is always looking down at what they’re doing all the time and just doing their thing that they practiced in their bedroom

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.

Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.

Boxing is what you make it. If you want to make it exciting, if you want to make it something where people are going to look and say, "Wow! Look at the guy. Who does he think he is?" You can do that. If you just want to go in there, punch each other, and then shake hands at the end of the night. You can do that, too. I know what I would rather pay money to see. Some people enjoy it, some despise it. Whether people like it or hate it, they still buy a ticket. We want boxing to be centre stage and you can't have that with guys who don't excite.

When it comes to how much attention something gets or how much attention it draws, I really kind of just try to expect nothing at this point. Whatever it turns into, it turns into.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here [Alexandria], up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.

If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more youthful edge to the Olympics in general, they don't have that with the Summer Games. They don't have anything that's drawing in a younger viewership. To be honest, I think they need skateboarding more than we need them. Skateboarding's popularity is solidified for the most part in a lot of countries.

In high school football, the coach kept me on the bench all year. On the last game of the season, the crowd was yelling, We want Youngman! We want Youngman! The coach says, Youngman - go see what they want!

I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.