Susanne Bier Quotes

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.

I have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.

You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing that was in your head before you went up there. It's a very weird thing. I never do award speeches too well.

My early years as a 'speaker' involved note cards that shook like a leaf while I held them because I was so nervous.

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.

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.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!

I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.

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 failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I can't talk on the radio at all. When the red light comes on, my hands go up in the air: I think they're trying to get to my face, to shut me up. I don't talk on stage for the same reason.

I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.

I was in sixth grade the first time I was required to speak in front of an audience. I had terrible stage fright and felt quite ill, in fact, by the time I had to give my little talk to students in another class across the hall.

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

I was very nervous about giving speeches for a long time.

I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other people's clothes and pretending to be somebody else, which is completely crazy choice of profession. So, I don't enjoy public speaking and I have every sympathy for anyone who has to do it and doesn't enjoy it.

Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.

Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

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