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You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear. -- Johnny Vegas
I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well. -- Kapil Sharma
When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear. -- Bill Kreutzmann
I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. -- John Lydon
I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line. -- Daniel Radcliffe
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 this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
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
The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage. -- Terence Fisher
I feel completely fearless when I'm on stage. And also totally fearful. There's the fear that I'm not making a very smart career move sometimes, but there's the stronger belief that these things need to be said. -- Andy Kindler
Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. -- Ron Fournier
Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend! -- Don Rickles
Luckily, I'm not a stand-up comedian, so I don't get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public. -- Charles Stross
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 get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver. -- Adele
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
Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and seeing all these much younger, much fitter people, who I was going to be on stage with, became a catalyst for cutting out the more unhealthy aspects of my life. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me. -- Steven Wright
The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive. -- Rahul Dravid
You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.' -- Marina Abramovic
A new power is emerging on the world stage born of love not fear -- Richard Gerber
Some people have a fear of being on stage. I have a fear of coming off it. -- Noel Fielding
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage. -- Napoleon Hill
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
We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov

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