Alec Berg Quotes

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

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

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

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

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

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something.

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

Falling in front of an audience - that's, like, my biggest fear.

I was once so terrified of acting that I used to pretend I was ill to get out of drama.

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 walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic!

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

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

Performing was terrifying.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.