Lisa Stansfield Quotes

As a kid, I was really shy. Technically I am still, but when I'm performing I want everybody to listen.

I love being onstage and I love to perform. To be honest with you, I'm more comfortable performing than I am in an everyday situation, which I can't quite explain.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

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

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.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

I'm a natural ham. It doesn't bother me to perform.

It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.

I never got nervous performing my own material.

I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.

I've always been pretty reserved, but after taking drama classes in middle school to get more comfortable performing in front of people, I thought I should try out for television.

I know people always say to get out of your comfort zone and take risks, but when you are on a live national television show, and you are competing to stay on it, then I don't think you should be uncomfortable up there. I think you should sell it and be your own best self.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

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

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.'

I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. That's how I get out my shyness.

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

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

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.