Quotes About Stage

When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'

I think with performing, initially I was terrified on stage, absolutely terrified. And I did it again and again and again, and I learned sort of how it works, and then I was able to do it.

I love music, I love to sing, but I am terrified of singing in public.

I'm typically pretty terrified to sing in front of people.

Singing on Broadway terrified me more than anything I've done.

Being alone on stage without a character to hide behind has always terrified me but I've always been one for facing my fears.

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Performing was terrifying.

The very first time I did stand-up, that was terrifying.

Theater has always been terrifying to me.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

Even at a McFly show, if I don't have a guitar for a few minutes... and suddenly being on my own, without my band mates and on the dance floor with no instrument and not singing, it will be absolutely terrifying.

I'd been to the Comedy Store, and I loved the terror of it and the way the best comedians could control the crowd. What confidence that would give you, if you could somehow survive.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

As for the horde of minor gods who respectively watched over every stage of life and work, 'we believe that the angels carry out their duties,' said Tertullian (An., 37, 1).

G. Evelyn Hutchinson, a pioneering ecologist, spoke eloquently of the living world as "the ecological theater and the evolutionary play." This decaying log is a stage, and the scenes take place in the gaps, where the colonists act out their drama.