Stage Fright Quotes - Page 2

• I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.

  John Lydon

  Running, Self, Alcohol

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

  Jeanne Moreau

  People, Fever, Ridiculous

  9 Copy quote

• I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.

  Roseanne Barr

  Stars, Singing, Stuff

  7 Copy quote

• I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.

  Bob Denver

  Weed, Marijuana, Air

  9 Copy quote

• You always get nervous on stage because when you get up there, you want to do great. The crowd has you pumped up so there are always a little bit of butterflies. That's all part of it. But as far as getting stage fright, clamming up there, not generally, I just enjoy it on stage and have a great time.

  Easton Corbin

  Butterfly, Crowds, Want

  Source: thefirst3songs.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Kids, Past, Idols

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.

  Tim Roth

  Asking, Scared, Theater

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Character, America, Suffering

  8 Copy quote

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

  Jack Barakat

  Play, Nervous, Bigs

  14 Copy quote

• I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

  Sheridan Smith

  Suffering, Nerves, Stage

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT

  Nicki Minaj

  Bragging, Stage, Wrists

  Song: I Aint Thru, Album: Gold

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

  Brooke Burke

  Energy, Spontaneity, Stage

  4 Copy quote

• In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.

  Fred Melamed

  Careers, Long, Acting

  "Fred Melamed on Casual, the Coens, and making Larry David laugh". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. It’s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my stage fright. Which I used to think there was no cure for…Last night was the first night I’ve slept 8 hours naturally in my entire life. I felt the best I have in ages. It’s better than any medication or all of the other nonsense I’ve tried.

  Sky Ferreira

  Night, Insomnia, Thinking

  9 Copy quote

• The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

  Alain Badiou

  Destiny, Encounters, Transition

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• ['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.

  James Taylor

  Song, Rain, Writing

  22 Copy quote

• 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.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

  Tim Ferriss

  Sports, Language, Excellent

  4 Copy quote

• 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”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source