Mia Wasikowska Quotes

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

Every night on stage it gets more and more comfortable. I think it really shows in the performances and just being able to revel in it and do it and live the dream I've thought about for so long.

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

It's impossible for me to play a part without thinking about the audience.

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.

Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.

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.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be in.

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

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

I've never been onstage in my life.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.