Amy Grant Quotes

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

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

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad.

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.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

You can go onto that stage every night, and it's always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don't know if there's any water in the pool.

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.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.

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

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

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

I was recording my audiobook, and it's so weird. You write things, but then to have to say them out loud in front of people feels so different. So when I was recording my audiobook, I was telling an embarrassing story in front of, like, a room full of audio-tech people that I don't know, and I was like 'Oh my God, this is so cringe.'

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.