Quotes About Fear

I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

I wore Chuck Taylors for a couple shows, and the second show I wore the Chuck Taylors, that was the one and only time I fell onstage. I haven't really bit it onstage in high heels yet. It will happen. It's not about if, it's about when.

Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.

I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera.

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.

When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There's all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don't know how to do. I didn't come from a film background.

When I directed my first short - 'American Virgin' - I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.

Let's not project our fears onto others.

I don't have a death wish. On the contrary, I'm hanging onto my life like never before.

I was a very closed person before, and I wouldn't say how I felt about things, and now I've kind of opened myself up. And it's scary.

I've been sent somebody's heart in a jar. At that point, you're thinking, I'm not sure if I should be opening this!

I'm not good at opening up with people.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.