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A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready. -- Faith Hill
Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. -- Walter Benjamin
I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much. -- Sean Penn
I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'. -- Alan Rickman
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 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
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
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. -- Thomas More
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
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
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
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
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
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. -- Gail Carson Levine
Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do -- Carlos Castaneda
For 'Fright Night,' we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He's not a brooding vampire - he's dark and dangerous. -- Stacey Snider
I have big, big stage fright. -- Andrea Bocelli
I have never known stage-fright at any time. -- Kate Smith
I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people. -- Ethel Merman
To begin with, I don't have any stage fright -- Ednita Nazario
It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright. -- Robin Roberts
I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. -- Henry Rollins
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. -- Thomas Howard
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much. -- Andrea Bocelli
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
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
I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety. -- Helen Gurley Brown
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
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
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
I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody. -- Trevor Donovan
Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. -- Andrea Bocelli
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble. -- Britt Ekland
I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious. -- Brianna Brown
I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible. -- Rivers Cuomo
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I definitely get stage fright. -- Bridgit Mendler
And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT -- Nicki Minaj
Stage fright is my worst problem. -- Andrea Bocelli
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. -- H. L. Mencken
People die of fright and live of confidence. -- Henry David Thoreau
I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright. -- Sheridan Smith
What is fright by night is curiosity by day. -- Victor Hugo
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past . -- Isaac Asimov
I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright. -- Gloria Gaynor
The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight. -- Craig Ferguson
I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright. -- Carrie Fisher
Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright. -- Lou Reed
The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright. -- Joyce Cary
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is. -- Guy de Maupassant
The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright. -- John Edensor Littlewood
And the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. -- Herman Melville
The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light. -- Shel Silverstein
I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright. -- Tim Burton
...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation. -- Ann M. Martin
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. -- Ned Rorem
The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright -- William Hurt
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives. -- Charles Hermite
It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence -- Richard Wilbur
I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though]. -- Jack Barakat
I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back. -- Tim Roth
The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill. -- Rivers Cuomo
To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence. -- Sun Tzu
You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out. -- Brian Henson
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright. -- Carson McCullers
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak. -- Karl Kraus
I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life. -- Barry Humphries
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. -- Timothy Ferriss
If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright. -- Harry J. Anslinger
Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright. -- Moby
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright." -- Adam Duritz
Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget.~Crispin.~ -- J.L. Clayton
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. -- Timothy Ferriss
Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all. -- Catherynne M. Valente
My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon. -- Hildegard Knef
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright. -- Constance Marie
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright. -- Constance Marie
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
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
Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable -- Thucydides
Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright. -- Neil Young
Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it. -- Joan Collins
Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well... -- Philip Reeve
It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway. -- Tom Lenk
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
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado. -- Louisa May Alcott
The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright. -- William Blake
Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light -- Dan Fogelberg
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween. -- Danny Elfman
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 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
I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound. -- Al Yankovic
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others. -- Marilyn Ferguson
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
I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were. -- Lydia Davis
Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new. -- Nick Gordon
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
Don't leave me alone!A cry in the night,OF anguish heart-stiking,Of soul-killing fright.Live for my livingOr else I must dieDon't leave me alone.A world heard that cry." -- Anne McCaffrey
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
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
And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark. -- Lewis Carroll
Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail. -- Sefi Atta
If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration. -- Charlotte Rampling
The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying. -- Britt Ekland
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
The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives. -- Tullian Tchividjian
When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright. -- Erich Fromm
I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs. -- Jim Crace
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
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
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. -- William Shakespeare

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