Fright Quotes

• To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

  Walter Benjamin

  Happiness, Being Happy, Fear

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.463, Harvard University Press

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• If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

  Stevie Nicks

  Fear, Keys, Stage Performance

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• A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

  Faith Hill

  Fear, Littles, Stage

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• I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

  Brian Wilson

  Done, Four, Hell

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• Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

  Karl Marx

  World, Uniting, Communist Manifesto

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

  John Lydon

  Wicked, Rotten, Goes On

  The Daily Telegraph, January 6, 2008.

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• In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

  Taylor Swift

  Play, Get Better, Way

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• I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

  Helen Mirren

  Night, Sick, Suffering

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• I definitely get stage fright.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Stage, Stage Fright

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• I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

  Anne Lamott

  Funny, Reading, Voice

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• It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mistake, Slave, Masters

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

  Andy Partridge

  Fear, France, Eating

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• Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Powerful, Fear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Beauty

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• Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any life in you! Even though you know that you are going to be killed, fight till you are killed! Don't die of fright! Die fighting! Don't go down till you are knocked down.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Strong, Taken

  "Awakened India".

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• I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

  Alan Rickman

  Lines, Forget You, Gremlins

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• I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

  Sean Penn

  Fear, Stage, Stage Fright

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• I have big, big stage fright.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Fear, Bigs, Stage

  Interview with Connie Chung, transcripts.cnn.com. December 25, 2002.

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• I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

  Ethel Merman

  Fear, People, Stage

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

  Henry Rollins

  Fear, Remember, Minutes

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• To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

  Ednita Nazario

  Fear, Stage, Stage Fright

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• I have never known stage-fright at any time.

  Kate Smith

  Fear, Stage, Known

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• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  Eddie Bracken

  Fun, Fear, Heaven

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• Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Fear, Moving, Home

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books

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