Terry Crews Quotes

Being nervous, first of all, puts you at a distinct disadvantage, and if you've really prepared and if you've really thought through how to start the conversation, things start to fall into place. There are other things I get nervous about, but not that.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

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

The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I'd ever seen.

The Emmys seem like an entity unto themselves that have an agenda that sometimes corresponds to quality, sometimes doesn't.

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

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

I've done plenty of daredeviling - from white-water rafting to bungee jumping. But I think the most fearless was hosting the Emmy Awards. It was overwhelming, and I definitely had to leave fear at the door.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.

I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.

I get intimidated by famous people. When I'm around them and they look at me like I belong, I'm like, 'Are you nuts? You're freakin' famous!' Whether it's Elmo or a Beatle or Vince Gill, it's humbling to be in a room with these folks.

I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.

I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.

I am not worried about playing in front of a big crowd.

I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.

[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, 'I'm so nervous. I don't know what to say if I go up there.' He said, 'Don't get emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it to your mother.'

If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.

I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

John F.Kennedy gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was thinking, "Goodness gracious this is big and I better be up to the task."

I don't know how many more of these awards I can come up for because I think a little bit is coming out of my pants right now.

You can look at the Emmys two ways in you're nominated. It's either win-win or lose-lose. If things go very well and I win, you still have to get up in front of a group of people and risk having God knows what come out of your mouth. If you won't win, you have to breathe deeply and smile and clap with a camera in your face.