Scott Hall Quotes

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.

As long as the crowd make noise, I will be in my element, whether it is booing or cheering. The main thing is I get a reaction of some kind.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

I love playing to people and seeing them react.

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

I enjoy seeing how many boos I can get.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

I think I'm more entertainer than musician. I like to get with the crowd, make this night special for them.

I just want people to focus on the performance.

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.

Acting is reacting. You can't react if you're not paying attention, if you're not listening.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm like - 'I can't laugh that much. That's so weird to me.'

As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.