Dita Von Teese Quotes

I get nerdy and nervous around not only great actors, but great directors and DPs I love.

I don't really get star-struck, but I do get talent struck. If I meet somebody that I think is just wildly talented and brilliant, that's when I start getting nervous.

Auditioning is the worst.

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

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

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

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

Bob Balaban is so perfect that the first movie I did with him, I couldn't talk to him because I was so intimidated by him.

When I did a scene with Dharam sir for the first time, I actually cried!

I can go in front of thousands of people on stage and not be afraid, but when there's just a few people, that scares me.

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.

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

You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.

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

First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

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.