Jessie Matthews Quotes

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

You always get apprehensive before you do shoots.

Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.

My heart was always in my mouth when I started on a new routine.

Uncertainty helps keep actors on edge.

Nearly everybody, when they first meet me, seems to have this sense of trepidation.

Confrontation makes me nervous.

I was petrified about 'I'm in You.' I couldn't wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I'm scared of audiences.

I get a little scared sometimes. A lot of things scare me.

Travelling fills me with dread.

Acting scares me.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.