Michael McIntyre Quotes

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

It's quite a feeling to be all alone on the stage!

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

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

I'm not the kind of person who ever thought, 'Oh, a one-woman show - bring it on!'

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.

There's a moment of truth that comes when you are performing, and you are all alone.

Not playing off of an audience is very challenging.

In real life, I am not a lonely person; I have lots of good friends and am active socially. But there are certain aspects of my life when I have felt very alone, utterly alone, and one of them is when I am performing on my own.

It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.