Don Rickles Quotes

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

Actors are frightened little children.

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

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

I'm afraid to do theater now.

Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.

It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

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

Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

I'm scared of audiences.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

I don't want to be able to see the audience.

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

I have big, big stage fright.

I definitely get stage fright.

Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.