Gary Valentine Quotes

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.

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

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 before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

I'm an asthmatic so if you want to ask someone about asthma, ask a doctor. I'm asthmatic but I'm not an expert on it.

The only medication that I am on, I am on asthma, and I have had that since I was a child. That's just a normal use.

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.

Performing is the one time I don't have anxiety - surprisingly, right?

It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.'

I find that I get nervous before I play. Even sound checks can give me anxiety and screw with my mind. But as long as I can play a little acoustic guitar backstage if I'm feeling nervous, so I don't have to walk in there cold turkey, I'll be fine.

I feel nervous before performing in live concerts, but it does not last more than five minutes.

I should also say, in general, I just drank a lot. I shouldn't characterize it as "to get the courage to perform." It was just an in-general nighttime activity. It definitely made it easier when I started doing stand-up. It was just much simpler to do a couple of shots. It made my nerves go away, for the most part. It just was something I sort of relied on for about the first four years.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

It's very disconcerting to have a camera shoved in your face. It's really discombobulating. If you're the least bit nervous you forget what you just said, you can't find your way through, you can't follow the logic of your own statements sometimes. It's a weird sensation. And I think that really helps to lock people in place.

I was nervous and confident at the same, nervous about going out there in front of all those people, with so much at stake, and confident that I was going to go out there and win.

Thus went my first Court Day. I think i'm going to puke.