Fright Quotes - Page 8

• The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if they just succumbed to it. There's this love/hate relationship with the spotlight.

  Robert Greene

  Hate, Firsts, Actors

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the piano in front of people, but I could act. I found that being on stage, I felt, "This is home." I felt an immediate right thing, and the exchange between the audience and the actors on stage was so fulfilling. I just went, "That is the conversation I want to have."

  Holly Hunter

  Home, People, Public Speaking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.

  Jean-Benoit Dunckel

  Scared, Pretentious, Stage Fright

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.

  Dee Dee Ramone

  Distance, Past, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I still get stage fright every time. I also feel very, very sleepy about a minute before we go on. Like I feel like I'm going to fall asleep. I can't explain it. It's sort of like, "Where's the energy going to come from to play this show?" Then all of a sudden you step up and there it is, it's like it's waiting for you.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Fall, Waiting, Energy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!

  Olivia Newton-John

  Today, Used, Stage

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.

  Brian Henson

  Looks, Used, Stage

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

  Constance Marie

  Drama, School, Nerves

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• My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

  Hildegard Knef

  Fire, Actors, Revolution

  HILDEGARD KNEF (1971). “THE GIFT HORSE”

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• Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

  Pablo Casals

  Music, Careers, Firsts

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• I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Sweat, Water

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• It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

  Rose Leslie

  Fun, Thinking, Healthy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

  Joyce Cary

  Government, Hell

  "The Horse's Mouth". Book by Joyce Cary, www.theguardian.com. 1944.

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• I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Nervous, Stage, Has Beens

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• Yes, I was scared, it was like stage fright, but I worked through it. If you've gotten to the door, you shouldn't doubt you can open it.

  Lara Fabian

  Doors, Doubt, Scared

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• There was a while when I got really bad stage fright and I basically felt...I was incredibly angry. I felt like everything had been taken away from me and it was at that point that I realized how much doing stand up reminds me of my self love and curiosity about myself and love of other people because I don't go on stage to dominate.

  Jenny Slate

  Taken, Self, People

  "Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Richard Kind on stand-up, improv and Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. January 19, 2014.

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• One of the nice things about moving from acting to writing is that your work can be in the public eye without having to be in the public eye yourself. I guess that's not completely true. If you're lucky - and I have been - there are book tours and lectures. I don't have stage fright, and I enjoy meeting people, so that's easy and enjoyable, but it's not a constant, and it's not celebrity.

  Debra Dean

  Nice, Moving, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

  Jack Barakat

  Play, Nervous, Bigs

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• Anytime you have to get intimate on camera, it's always a little interesting. You have to trick your brain almost, so that you don't get stage fright or get too much in your head where you're super uncomfortable.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Interesting, Brain, Cameras

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did not get stage fright and I actually enjoyed talking to people of all ages.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Children, Talking, People

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

  Mason Cooley

  Intelligence, Predatory

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