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A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready. -- Faith Hill
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
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
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 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 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
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 have big, big stage fright. -- Andrea Bocelli
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. -- H. L. Mencken
I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people. -- Ethel Merman
I have never known stage-fright at any time. -- Kate Smith
To begin with, I don't have any stage fright -- Ednita Nazario
I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright. -- Gloria Gaynor
I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. -- Henry Rollins
The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright. -- John Edensor Littlewood
The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright -- William Hurt
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
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
Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright. -- Amy Schumer
I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing. -- Michelle Chamuel
Stage fright and acting blocks are just unfocused or misplaced energy. Everything is possible if you know how and where to focus to invite inspiration...Inspiration is a sensation in the body. It can be invited upon your will and willingness to experience it taking you over.. -- Marjo-Riikka Makela
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
There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities. -- Muriel Rukeyser
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
I definitely get stage fright. -- Bridgit Mendler
Stage fright is my worst problem. -- Andrea Bocelli
I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright. -- Sheridan Smith
I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright. -- Carrie Fisher
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much. -- Andrea Bocelli
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.' -- Kirk Douglas
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
And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT -- Nicki Minaj
I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back. -- Tim Roth
I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though]. -- Jack Barakat
The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill. -- Rivers Cuomo
You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out. -- Brian Henson
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
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
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. -- Timothy Ferriss
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. -- Timothy Ferriss
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 wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright. -- Constance Marie
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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

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