Ildar Abdrazakov Quotes

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

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.

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

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

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

Performing was terrifying.

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

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

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

I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear.

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 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'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

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

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

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