Kim Basinger Quotes

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

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

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

I'm like that person who hates going to magic shows - and I love magic, I love wizards - but going to a show where there is any possibility of audience participation is a nightmare for me.

I'm never not nervous before going onstage. Like... what if I fall on my face?

I'm nervous before all shows.

I don't know about other comedians, but I know that I never have felt anything like stage fright. I've felt nervous before big shows, but I think that's different than stage fright.

The fear of public speaking is a primal fear. You can train your body to not be crazy when you're doing it, but it truly is a primal fear.

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

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

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

Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

I'm scared of audiences.

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

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

Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

I have big, big stage fright.