Beyonce Knowles Quotes

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

I get extremely nervous before performances. I pray and try to look at it as, 'I'll go out there and have fun,' but it's very nerve-wracking for me. I don't think that will ever change.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

Every match that I have, I always feel like I'm more nervous than the last one.

A bit of nervousness is essential as in a way it helps you deliver your best.

I used to get the most anxiety before shows because I really was never prepared.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

Before every performance I feel nervous.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

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 feel like I've mastered what nervousness is, and simply, nervousness is, fearing the future. Or, I like to put it as, thinking about things that you don't want in the future. Normally, artists may think, 'What if my show doesn't go well?' Boom. That's going to cause nervousness.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

I've never felt as nervous as I did before a track meet - literally, stomach going crazy - 'cause it was just so difficult.

Any match you face, you know, you can be nervous.

Nerves can happen to even the best of us. It's not easy to compete.

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

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.