Ron White Quotes

When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.

When you're the opener, you're the guy getting the crowd warmed up. But when you're the headliner, you're the main dude. People come to see you, and you have to deliver. It's a cool position to be in.

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

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

Elektra has no control over the live show, at least.

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.

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

I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.

We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.

Damien Sandow, he's a good entertainer. He keeps your attention.

There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.

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 can handle boos. Boos entertain me.

When it comes to being on stage, I might be on stage one minute and the next minute I might be in the audience, dancing and lifting people's spirits.

It doesn't matter if you're the best wrestler in the world and can do every move perfectly; if you don't connect with the crowd or sell well or have good promos, nobody cares.

I love doing the in-ring promos more than doing the backstage promos because I love being able to interact with the crowd.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

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 never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.

I feel like I'm an entertainer.

The greatest feeling in the world is performing and connecting with the audience.

Who can deny that it was a pleasure to watch Rob Van Dam interact with the audience and tear the house down for 30 minutes a night.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me.

What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That's being a rock star.

Anyone in the entertainment business, respectively, is a show-off.