Lawrence Welk Quotes

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my mouth and no words would come out. I'd do a couple of takes and eventually I could run the lines.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

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.

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.

You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

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

Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!

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

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

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

Performance is hard. I know this. I really enjoy it, but I have bombed, I have fluffed, and I have said the wrong thing.

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.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

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

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.