Julia Sweeney Quotes

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.

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

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

It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.

It's a horrible feeling to go in front of an audience when you don't feel right.

You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

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

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

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'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

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

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

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

I definitely get stage fright.

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

I have stage fright really badly.

I don't like going on stage. Stages mean 'nervous' for me.