Christopher Mintz-Plasse Quotes

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.

Every time before I go on stage, I'm nervous.

I throw up before every show. I'm thinking about just making it part of the act.

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.

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

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

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

Performing was terrifying.

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.

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 would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

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

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

I'm scared of audiences.

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

I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would be like, 'Oh, God.' It would completely terrify me, even though I'm such a junkie for the show.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

You have that moment just before you go on - I've had it in every play - where you just kind of want to run away. There's a whole audience, and they are waiting outside, and you're like, 'Why am I doing this again? Why? Why?'

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

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

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.