Nina Conti Quotes

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

During my teen years, I just really started to get anxiety. I would get stage fright when I would do certain speaking engagements and I always would get through them, but it was a really nerve-racking and hard thing to do.

I ran off stage at my first gig. Halfway through it, I forgot my lines and didn't know what to do, so I just ran out of the building down towards a lake. I was going to throw myself in, but the compere came out and said, 'No, it's going well, come back and finish the gig!'

When I first started performing, I was a nervous wreck. Honestly, sometimes I felt like I was going to run off the stage.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

The one thing I thought I would never be able to do was sing on television.

I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.

I am not worried about playing in front of a big crowd.

Singing Flower of Scotland was the only thing that made me nervous.I don't get nervous doing my own shows.

Everyone loves puppets.

Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.

I don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.

I used to be really nervous to perform in front of people. I would cry.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

Several times I drew a critical cartoon and then, at the last moment, stopped myself from putting it out in print. I thought it would be misunderstood, be a politically incorrect thing to do.

If I'm confident in my ability to do something, I never get nervous about it. If I was to get up and try to sing in front of 50,000 people, I'd fall to pieces. But boxing, I find it really comfortable.

Acting lets you be in a place where no one's judging you.

For me it's liberating to be able to look somebody in the eyes and know that they can't see my eyes. I've always thought that when I would see Slipknot playing.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

Fundamentally, I was a very shy and quiet person growing up, so it was just really difficult getting up on a stage. It was a perverse career choice really.

I don't necessarily feel 100 per cent comfortable standing up on stage in front of lots of people, but I don't think most people would. It's a pretty bizarre thing to do. It can also be absolutely incredible having thousands of people singing back lyrics that you might have written in your bedroom or wherever.