Quotes About Nervousness

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause.

I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

I'm kind of emotionally dyslexic, and when I feel vulnerable or nervous, I laugh.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

I was fortunate enough to play in a number of finals, and I can still remember waking with butterflies in my stomach. It is at moments like those you realise why you fell in love with football in the first place.

I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear.

The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, 'Please don't fall over, please don't fall over, please don't fall over!'

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing.

The biggest problem for people who get really, really nervous when they perform live is that you think everybody's looking at you.

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

If I'm confident in my ability to do something, I never get nervous about it. If I was to get up and try to sing in front of 50,000 people, I'd fall to pieces. But boxing, I find it really comfortable.

You breathe fast when you're scared.

It's a really strange thing to be doing, to go on stage and all of a sudden have bright lights and spotlights.