Nicola Walker Quotes

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

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

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

I've started to get more stage fright the older I get.

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 think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

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

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

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

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

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

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

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.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

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.

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