Andrew Shue Quotes

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it.

I've always been pretty reserved, but after taking drama classes in middle school to get more comfortable performing in front of people, I thought I should try out for television.

I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.

'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' has helped me shed my inhibitions. Dancing in front of an audience was not easy for me. But I managed it and got progressively comfortable with the audience as the weeks progressed.

I had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I've gotten better at it, I've started to enjoy it. It's made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.

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

If I could borrow anything from Miley, it would be her stage confidence. For me, that's just going to come with time.

Because of what I've chosen to do for my work in the world, almost every time that there's something that I'm afraid to do that I need to do, I have to do it in front of other people. It makes me feel exposed.