Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

If the crowd is too big, it's too much for me. I took my daughter down there, and all I did was spend all of my time worrying that she was going to get lost because you're caught between somebody with a sandwich in their hand and somebody in a costume. It's really crazy.

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

I felt that if we, as the Met, were not intervening once one person starts digging up Parliament Square, then someone else is going to join in and you have a spiral.

I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

You have your real life and then you have your work.

The tyranny of a multitude [mob] is a multiplied tranny.

There is nothing more dangerous than debate in a crowd.

The public is a ferocious beast: one must chain it up or flee from it.

The public must be put in its place...so that each of us can live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

The crowd which assembled to witness this execution was unparalleled, being, according to the best calculation, nearly forty thousand; and the fatal catastrophe which happened in consequence will for long cause the day to be remembered. By eight o’clock not an inch of ground was unoccupied in view of the platform. The pressure of the crowd was such that, before the malefactors appeared, numbers of persons were crying out in vain to escape from it; the attempt only tended to increase the confusion. Several females of low stature who had been so imprudent as to venture among the mob were in a dismal situation; their cries were dreadful. Some who could be no longer supported by the men were suffered to fall and were trampled to death. This also was the case with several men and boys. In all parts there were continued cries ... particularly from the females and children among the spectators, some of whom were seen expiring without the possibility of obtaining the least assistance, everyone being employed in endeavours to preserve his own life.

People are always invading your personal space on set, especially on 'The Walking Dead.'

I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.'

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.

You can say, 'Put your hands up.' And 30,000 people put their hands up. It's one of the craziest things.

I was with my mother at a mall when our car was suddenly surrounded by people. Initially, she loved seeing her son getting mobbed. Then the crowds started swelling, and they began to push and shove and tilt the car. My mom's joy turned into anxiety.

I remember a show in New Jersey several years ago when a big fight broke out in the crowd. I took the microphone and introduced Frank Sinatra. He wasn't there, but even the guys creating the disturbance stopped to look.

The counter is a barrier.

When you hire someone, you are investing in them.

Whenever you start a new job, it's always a bit daunting, the unknown.