Gemma Ward Quotes

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

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

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.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

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

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

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 was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

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

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.

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

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

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'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.

The first time I sang in front of an audience, I was about 14 - it was at my guitar school's showcase, and there were about 30 people there. I was so nervous, but I did it.

I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.

I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.

Going out to play a game in front of 100,000 spectators doesn't worry me. Nothing to it.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

The first time that I stepped onto a stage, it was life-changing. For once, I felt comfortable and in a place where I belonged. It changed my life forever.