Torrie Wilson Quotes

Performing was terrifying.

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

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

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?'

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

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.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.

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

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

I'm terrified of performing live.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

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

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who are slightly disinterested and are irritated at a Barnes & Noble.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

I'm not a natural born performer.

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

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

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

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

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.