Samoa Joe Quotes

Television is a good training ground for aspiring stars. You can experiment and get away, imbibing the positive and viable aspects. Whereas, in cinema, the stakes are high. If something goes wrong, the film falls flat.

When it came to eliciting a reaction from an audience, especially at the time, I think Ric Flair is the guy who is constantly up there. Especially when you talk about speaking with passion and being able to convey a ton of emotion with his words and his body language.

Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'

I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

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.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It's definitely a gift and for which I'm thankful.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

I came into the industry as an actor. And moved on to become a star with the help of my dancing skills.

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

I've worked my entire career to try to broaden the perception of the WWE. A lot of folks think because we're so entertaining and oftentimes have such wild and well-defined characters that it's all we are. It has kind of been my life's work to tell the public that's not true.

I know the way WWE works. Things change last minute.

I never, like, once I got to the WWE and then, I kind of started to realize that we have something special with that character, I was never satisfied. I was like, 'we're here and we're getting a great reaction, but what's next?'

Once you learn how to work inside the ring - once you learn how to tell a story - then you can come to a big company like the WWE and learn the extra stuff, like the video, the pyro, the music, and that adds to everything you can do.

I wasn't in NXT for very long, but what I learned there was very valuable once I got onto the main roster - how to communicate to a larger audience, stuff like that.

WWE has always been committed to promoting wrestling talent in India.

Anything that's going to continue to keep you out there as an artist, you've got to appreciate and embrace it.

I was a part of the largest WrestleMania ever, so I know how to feed off the energy from the crowd in my fights.

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

I study entertainment and apply it to myself to one day become the greatest WWE superstar we have, and it's a lot of work. So I write jokes and material every day... you have to keep people's attention, one way or another.

Being a part of the WWE, I am blessed to have a platform both on social media and TV, with that platform I am able to spread my message and share my story.

I always felt like the wrestling business was better off with two viable mainstream promotions.