Borns Quotes

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'

I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.

I believe that comfort level is crucial for a performer.

When I'm on set, I'm 100 percent comfortable, but at events and photo shoots, I'm beyond nervous.

When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

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.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.