Quotes About Performance

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

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

Theater has always been terrifying to me.

One-liners that must land perfectly in just the right nanosecond can be terrifying.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

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.

For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you're constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don't, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back.

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.

When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

Both the benefit and the terrifying aspect of standup is when it's going poorly, you've only yourself to blame. There's no one to bail you out. But when it's going great, all that approval is for you.

You're under the gun at all times because it's live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you're having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh - which is terrifying... People are filing into the audience, and you're writing a new joke for the end of it.

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors.

For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.

I had a panic attack years ago in preparation for a very difficult show. And you cannot hear, or see, or you can't compute. It's quite 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 need to know how many records I've sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we're gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something.

'Heart on Fire' didn't do as well as the last record in most territories, but South Africa is one of the places it did really well.

Criticism comes with the territory when you don't win games.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

Nowadays heroines are doing everything from acting to item songs. They are jumping into the territory of item girls.