Quotes About Performance

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.

I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.

I was shy. But when I sang I felt really empowered.

People think that I'm a really outgoing person because of how I am on stage. But I'm not. I'm really shy.

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy. In a way, I force myself to perform, because if I didn't, I'd stay home rolled up in a ball watching 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' all day.

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up more in front of an audience. Her plan was for me to just talk more.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It's something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I'm able to do it.

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.

I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.

The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.