Rooney Mara Quotes

I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

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

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

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.

Every time I go out to perform, believe me. You never lose that fear of, 'I hope I do it right. I hope I don't fall flat on my face. I hope this will be good for them.'

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

I never stop getting nervous. I'm nervous before every single show.

If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.

As soon as there are 200 people in a theater watching me, I get really scared.

I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have that in me to do it, the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. If there's a lot of people on a set, I get nervous. So music just wasn't something I ever seriously considered.

I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.

I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.

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

I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

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

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.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!