Wyclef Jean Quotes

All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

Performing live is difficult. But nobody's forcing us to do it.

I think that no number of rehearsals can guarantee the outcome of a live show.

I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so...

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in a different world.

When I started performing I was like, "Holy hell, how am I going to survive this?" I was giving it my all in 15 minutes but now I had to do it for two hours.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

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

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

You have that moment just before you go on - I've had it in every play - where you just kind of want to run away. There's a whole audience, and they are waiting outside, and you're like, 'Why am I doing this again? Why? Why?'

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.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

On stage, I am in the dark.

I really do not like auditioning... it's hard because you never know what you're going to walk into in a room.

I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

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 will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.