Quotes About Stage

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

Before every performance I feel nervous.

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

I'm nervous the first few songs, and then I'm like, 'I got this audience. I'm ready!'

So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.

Being on the stage is the one place I don't get nervous. Before the show is another story, but once I'm up there, and the first chord hits, I go to this other place. It's like a dream land.

I used to be really nervous to perform in front of people. I would cry.

I used to get nervous just going to the stage door, seeing people waiting to talk to me. I was afraid of being caught out in some way or not being right.

I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.

Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.

I get kind of nervous in crowds, so a musical festival would never be something I would go to, unless I was playing.

I'm nervous before all shows.

Going on stage is always a process that causes anxiety and nervousness.

I will never stop performing on stage.

I never stop getting nervous. I'm nervous before every single show.

We've never been a band that gets up on stage and says, 'OK, we're going to play our entire new album.' Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with.