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
I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'. — Alan Rickman
The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified. — Eric Whitacre
The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid. — Ralph C. Smedley
I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me. — Kate Bosworth
As nervous as I am to pick up a water bottle, that's how nervous I am to perform. My confidence is very high. I really enjoy going up, I feel like it's my birthday everyday that I have to go up there. — Gucci Mane
I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation. — Bill Wyman
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up. — Leo Kottke
The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright — William Hurt
With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain. — Greta Scacchi
As an actor you have one great fear: pimples! — Jonathan Brandis
Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar. — Jimmy Page
When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen. — Stella Adler
Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing. — Angus Young
I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over. — Maria Callas
I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again. — Joel Madden
Everyone has jitters in their first fight. — Dana White
The biggest mistake any performer can make is to look at the audience. — Naval Ravikant
I have a love-hate relationship with performing. — Sarah Brightman
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. — Samuel Butler
The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage. — Maria Callas
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. — Ralph Richardson
If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts. — Sharon Needles
I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit. — John Knox
Stage Fright Image Quotes
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other people's clothes and pretending to be somebody else, which is completely crazy choice of profession. So, I don't enjoy public speaking and I have every sympathy for anyone who has to do it and doesn't enjoy it. — Helena Bonham Carter
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
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
I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though]. — Jack Barakat
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
He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next — Kurt Vonnegut
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
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
I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special." — Laurie Anderson
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
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
I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. — Sean Penn
I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. — Henry Rollins
I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people. — Ethel Merman
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
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
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
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
You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out. — Brian Henson
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
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
Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success. — Charles Rosen
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. — H. L. Mencken
I definitely get stage fright. — Bridgit Mendler
I have never known stage-fright at any time. — Kate Smith
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
I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over. — Scarlett Johansson
I still get stage fright horribly. I still get nervous. I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more. — Vanessa Kirby
[Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright. — Vanessa Kirby
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
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
Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television. — Bill Hader
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright. — Constance Marie
The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about. — Micheal Mescon
I have never had one moment of stage fright and performing has always been a huge thrill and source of enjoyment for me. It's part of my personality. — Shakira
The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright. — John Edensor Littlewood
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak. — Karl Kraus
To begin with, I don't have any stage fright. — Ednita Nazario
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
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
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
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