Walter Matthau Quotes

In third grade, my teacher asked me to read in front of the class. I was so touched because that really was the first acting I had ever done, just reading in front of the class. And I was so amazed with the fulfillment I got from being in front of people.

It takes a lot of nerves to be a sports entertainer and to be in front of those big crowds.

I love interacting with an audience. I love just being myself in front of a crowd.

I'm normally a player that plays well under the TV lights, the cameras and everything, I normally do produce quite well.

The best thing is to go into an opposing arena, and 15,000 people are focusing on you. That's the best feeling.

Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being the centre of attention. I think it's part of the reason why I loved skating. You're literally in a fishbowl. You're in the middle of the ice by yourself, and the world is watching.

I think I'm getting more and more experience playing on big stages, and I think that's going to help me with everything.

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

On stage the spotlight is on me and I cannot afford to be shy.

Ever since I was a kid, I loved being up in front of people. I loved making people laugh; I never had any stage fright.

If you can't motivate yourself to get up and play in front of 30,000-40,000 people, then you're not in the right job.

With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of the time - it's just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.

I would want to start. I want to run out there in front of 20,000 people and get my name announced. I get it. I get that.

Even as a kid I wasn't, like, a natural entertainer, where I would gather everyone around me and then sing or something at family parties.

I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.

I don't think enough people admit that there's just something fun about being in front of people. And that's not a self-centered, egotistical thing.

I've got used to being on 'The Chase' and keeping nice and calm and that feels like comfort now compared to being in the spotlight and being on stage.

Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.

When you're an actor, people just take it for granted that you're really confident and can get up in front a stage full of people and just speak to them.

I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.

When I started learning the violin, my choir teacher thought I could sing. But when I first got on stage, I froze!

It is important for an actor to learn how to face a live audience.

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

I've played the Royal Albert Hall to 8,500 people, and there wasn't a nerve in my body.