Erica Durance Quotes

In school, my biggest fear was that I couldn't produce emotion on cue.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

I love pressure in a different sort of way; I enjoy the pressure of getting out and performing for the public. Being compared and judged doesn't seem quite right to me.

People don't know this, but I'm going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That's why it's so addictive, I must say.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking onstage.

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.

I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.

I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

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.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

I always get nervous when I'm performing at international shows.

I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.

I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

I don't like to get in front of people.

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

On stage, I am in the dark.

The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.