Quotes About Nervousness

I don't like new environments. I don't like being around a lot of new people. It makes me uncomfortable.

Every show my heart's beating real fast, my palms sweating. I'm uncomfortable and I'm trying to get off the stage as fast as possible.

I'm one of those guys who always has that kind of underlying anxiety kind of always creeping around in the background.

The last thing that scared me... it was probably something stupid, like when someone jumped out at me, or I thought my new dog had gone to the toilet underneath my piano. Lots of silly things.

Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

I can be completely spontaneous, which is absolutely wonderful. I don't like it at the same time; no one wants to be nervous all the time, but that nervousness mixes with the excitement I feel on the stage, and it makes for a wonderful performance.

Some people think that confidence is something that some people just have. Even though I may look confident strutting in a two-piece on a stage, there are days when I'm so nervous, or I feel like, 'Oh my gosh, I don't know if I can do this.'

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

I don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.

So many horses get stage fright when they enter the arena, and that's it - the performance is over.

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.

I'm not a natural performer: I have a natural stage fright.

I definitely get stage fright.

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

I was in sixth grade the first time I was required to speak in front of an audience. I had terrible stage fright and felt quite ill, in fact, by the time I had to give my little talk to students in another class across the hall.

I have big, big stage fright.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

I have stage fright really badly.

I don't know about other comedians, but I know that I never have felt anything like stage fright. I've felt nervous before big shows, but I think that's different than stage fright.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.

When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of fun to stand up there. I always enjoy the moment when I'm actually standing on stage. When I'm done, I'm like, 'Oh, I want to play one more song.'

I took six months to rehearse how I'd ask Shah Rukh Khan if he would launch my debut novel. I thought of 100 ways to ask him. Finally, three weeks before the book hit the stands I went to pop the question and forgot everything I rehearsed.

My first experience playing for England was very scary and nerve wracking.