Gloria Gaynor Quotes

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

I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.

I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

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'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

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

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

Every time before I go on stage, I'm nervous.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

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 get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

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

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.