Tom Daley Quotes

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

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

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

I definitely get stage fright.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.

I get nervous playing the Opry still. You take that nervous energy and channel it into being amped.

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

You do a play, or you go on set for the first day of filming: if you don't have nerves, and you don't have any kind of adrenalin pushing you forward, then something is wrong.

I get scared to death every time I have to play. I always get nervous because you never know what to expect. The crowd could be awful, or it could be amazing. You just never know what you're going to get until you get out there and do it. I just do my best and have fun.

I have stage fright really badly.

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.

Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.

Every time before I go on stage, I'm nervous.

Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come.