Vanessa Ferlito Quotes

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I've got a lot of weaknesses. One of them is that I often get scared and tense when I'm working - and fear is one of the big threats to any good performance, because it closes you down and makes it harder for you to produce life in front of the camera.

I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

You have to bury nerves, because they can either destroy you or give you that extra boost. You have to use your nerves in a good way. Don't let them destroy you.

I used to be really nervous to perform in front of people. I would cry.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

Performing was terrifying.

Failure? Scared to death of it.

But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.