Yoko Ono Quotes

If I walk out onstage and I get a warm, excited response, it makes me feel so confident and happy, and then it's so easy for me up there.

Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.

I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.

If I'm confident in my ability to do something, I never get nervous about it. If I was to get up and try to sing in front of 50,000 people, I'd fall to pieces. But boxing, I find it really comfortable.

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

I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

Performing was terrifying.

I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

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.

I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that's a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

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

I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.

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.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

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.

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.