Liz Phair Quotes

I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.

I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.

I'm used to performing. I'm comfortable in front of people. I'm never the one who's fighting for attention, but I've always been comfortable.

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've realized that I can do performances.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

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 become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

I'm most comfortable on stage.

For me, performing isn't really particularly difficult.

I love performing, and if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

I don't think enough people admit that there's just something fun about being in front of people. And that's not a self-centered, egotistical thing.

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

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

There's just something about being on stage and being with the people that, once that camera turns on, you find the strength to keep it cool, look good, act like you're not cold, act like you ain't nervous, act like you aren't scared. I think that comes with confidence and practice.

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

There's nothing about the stage to be afraid of; there's nothing about the cameras to be afraid of. You just have to be yourself.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff.

Ever since I was a kid, I loved being up in front of people. I loved making people laugh; I never had any stage fright.

When you're an actor, people just take it for granted that you're really confident and can get up in front a stage full of people and just speak to them.

Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like - you have to be kind of a ham, you know? Like, the thing about writers is they're generally self - comedy writers - self-loathing, sort of play small. And as a, like, performer, you have to think like a comedy writer but act like a performer.