Orlando Bloom Quotes

I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.

I've always been quiet in the dressing room before the game. I try to focus and give everything.

You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm.

I always meditate before every show. I say a prayer with my crew and my band to get in the mode, and I also stretch because it's a very athletic show. We've got to entertain; it's what we do.

I wake up around nine and do morning chants in my bed. I learned transcendental meditation four years ago, and I do it twice a day, plus an extra ten minutes before the show because I struggle with stage fright just before I go on.

I like to spend time alone before I go on stage.

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

Whenever I'm onstage, I try my best not to think that I'm performing. It's simply another part of my day.

I was so nervous every night that I had to really focus and keep myself in that moment so that I would not forget the words. I was really present for every song.

I have to have a little bit of time to myself right before whatever it is that I have to do because most of the time I'm sitting in my head convincing myself to calm down, all right, show down.

I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.

The only thing I want to think about the moments before a race is competing. I don't want the little things to distract me.

I like to come to a tournament with a specific playlist that I can listen to before going on the court. I like five or 10 minutes just for myself.

I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present.

You can't put pressure on yourself. You've just got to go out and play.

When I go on a pitch, I just try to enjoy it as much as I can. The more you enjoy it, the better you play.

Once I get up on stage, I will have to forget who I am playing and focus on the game itself.

For any performer who's coming up, if they really want to test their psychology and how they handle themselves on stage, then coming to the U.K. as a whole is a wonderful place for that.

When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

The calmest part of my day is right before a match.

If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.

Prior to stepping on stage, I prefer to continue being myself, whether that is making jokes with others, talking about other non-bodybuilding topics, or just sitting around listening to music.

I do a lot of vocal warmups, which are the same warmups I did when I was a kid, because I had a few classical singing lessons and stuff like that, so I know pretty much how I'm gonna be once I get on stage.