Maria Callas Quotes

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.

Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!

Once on stage, I was thinking of something else, and I forgot my line. I became so frightened. The girl I was playing with also became so frightened, she couldn't give me the next line. I just walked off stage.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

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.

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

I throw up before every show. I'm thinking about just making it part of the act.

When I perform and the crowd is cheering, there's a ringing noise in my head. I'm just zoned in, and even though I know there are people watching me, all I hear is this ringing inside of me.

I remember going on stage for the very first time as a solo act, I was probably, like, nine or 10 years old. And being backstage, I started having anxiety... I was literally getting sick.

For, like, 98 percent of my life, I'm not nervous. But as soon as I'm nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool.