Stage Fright Quotes:

I definitely get stage fright.

- Bridgit Mendler

topic: Stage, Stage Fright, Fright

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

- Ednita Nazario

topic: Stage, Stage Fright, Fright

I have never known stage-fright at any time.

- Kate Smith

topic: Fear, Stage, Stage Fright, Fright

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

- Sean Penn

source: Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

topic: Fear, Stage, Stage Fright, Fright

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

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Scared, Pretentious, Stage Fright

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

topic: Fear, Keys, Wonder, Stage Fright, Fright

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

- Faith Hill

topic: Fear, Littles, Stage, Stage Fright, Fright

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

topic: Play, Get Better, Way, It Gets Better, Stage Fright

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

- William Hurt

topic: Technique, Energy, Stage, Stage Fright

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

source: Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

topic: Slaughterhouse Five, Next, Slaughterhouse 5, Stage Fright, Fright

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

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Hate, Firsts, Actors, Love Hate Relationship, Stage Fright

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

topic: Doors, Doubt, Scared, Stage Fright

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

topic: Night, Sick, Suffering, Stage Fright, Fright

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

- Alan Rickman

topic: Lines, Forget You, Gremlins, Stage Fright, Fright

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

- John Lydon

topic: Suffering, Wicked, Gigs, Stage Fright, Fright

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

source: "The King's Speech - Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Crazy, Clothes, People, Stage Fright

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

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Musical, Terrible, Manifest, Stage Fright

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

topic: Funny, Reading, Voice, Stage Fright, Fright

I have big, big stage fright.

- Andrea Bocelli

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

topic: Fear, Bigs, Stage, Stage Fright, Fright

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

- Ethel Merman

topic: Fear, People, Stage, Stage Fright, Fright

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

- Henry Rollins

topic: Fear, Remember, Minutes, Stage Fright, Fright

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

- Renee Fleming

topic: Mind, Difficult Times, Stage, Stage Fright, Fright

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

topic: Fame, Stage, Trembling, Stage Fright

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

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fun, Thinking, Healthy, Stage Fright

I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.

- Chris Elliott

source: "Chris Elliott's unusual career". The Washington Times Interview, www.washingtontimes.com. February 15, 2000.

topic: Class, People, Clown, Stage Fright

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

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Running, Self, Alcohol, Stage Fright

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

topic: People, Fever, Ridiculous, Bad Impression, Stage Fright

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

topic: Stars, Singing, Stuff, Stage Fright, Fright

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

topic: Weed, Marijuana, Air, Smoking Weed, Stage Fright

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

source: Source: thefirst3songs.com

topic: Butterfly, Crowds, Want, Stage Fright

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

- Brian Henson

topic: Looks, Used, Stage, Stage Fright

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

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

topic: Kids, Past, Idols, Stage Fright

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

- Tim Roth

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Asking, Scared, Theater, Stage Fright

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

source: Source: www.mlive.com

topic: Today, Used, Stage, Performing Live, Stage Fright

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

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Character, America, Suffering, Stage Fright, Fright

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

- Jack Barakat

topic: Play, Nervous, Bigs, Stage Fright

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

- Sheridan Smith

topic: Suffering, Nerves, Stage, Stage Fright, Fright

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

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Fall, Waiting, Energy, Stage Fright

And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT

- Nicki Minaj

source: Song: I Aint Thru, Album: Gold

topic: Bragging, Stage, Wrists, Stage Fright

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

topic: Energy, Spontaneity, Stage, Stage Fright

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

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

topic: Careers, Long, Acting, Stage Acting, Stage Fright

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

topic: Nice, Moving, Book, Public Eye, Stage Fright

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

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Interesting, Brain, Cameras, Stage Fright

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

source: Source: www.nerdprobs.com

topic: Children, Talking, People, Stage Fright

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

topic: Night, Insomnia, Thinking, Stage Fright, Fright

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

topic: Destiny, Encounters, Transition, Declarations Of Love, Contingency

['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

topic: Song, Rain, Writing, Stage Fright, Useful Thoughts

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

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

topic: Taken, Self, People, Stage Fright

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

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Sports, Language, Excellent, Stage Fright

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

- Hildegard Knef

source: HILDEGARD KNEF (1971). “THE GIFT HORSE”

topic: Fire, Actors, Revolution, Stage Fright, Typhoons