Fanny Brice Quotes

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

I'm not nervous coming back to my old audience. I'm looking forward to it. That's really what I do; that's my day job.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

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 was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.

You put him in front of 50,000 people, he's at home.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

I'm most comfortable on stage.

It's really fun to be on stage in front of people.

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.

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.

I love performing for the crowd. Maybe that's what it is. I'm a crowd pleaser.

An hour show panics me a lot less than five minutes at the O2. How do you put yourself across and make sure people have a good time in five minutes?

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

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.

The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

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?

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

People buy a ticket to see your show, so from the moment I get onstage, I can have no insecurities, because they're already there. You have to get people to listen. If they listen, everything's cool.

The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'