Agyness Deyn Quotes

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.

I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

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.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I've always felt like I've been in good shows.

I always love performing live, and that's what I was doing that started getting me acting parts, so I still find time do it.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

I'm always onstage, and everyone there already loves me, so I go with this certain confidence.

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

An old ham like me needs to be on stage.

I've always been obsessed with being on stage and putting shows together.

At first, I was playing in front of 10 people in a park, then 1,000, then 10,000, then 80,000 and you are on television. I have done it step by step, so it is not a problem. There is no lack of confidence to be on the field, in front of many, many people.

I took a break from theater after 'The Cripple of Inishmaan' to make some money, to be honest, and also to feel more confident in front of a camera, and before long it was two years since I'd been acting onstage and I found that I really missed it.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

If I could borrow anything from Miley, it would be her stage confidence. For me, that's just going to come with time.

People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Performing is one of the best feelings I know!

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

For me I have learned to enjoy everything, especially performing live, so much more. I used to get horrible stage fright when I was younger and today and just love to sing for anyone who still turns up at my shows!