Henry Rollins Quotes

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it.

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

When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.

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

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television cameras, it's completely different.

For whatever reason, it's easier to perform in front of a massive crowd than in front of a small one, but again, that's how we came up.

As a comedian, you have everything working against you.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

I think people are always nervous for your first game.

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

Being the headliner is only more pressure if you're not very good.

I don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.

Auditioning sucks!

Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

My mom was like, 'You talk so much. You have too much energy. Why don't you just join the play or something?' It was a comedy, and I got laughs in rehearsal, but onstage, in front of a whole audience, I got a lot of laughs.

There were so many emotions on 'Idol' with nervousness and pressure, but in good ways.

When I begin shooting, I get nervous, as I am under pressure to do my job well.

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.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.

Performance is hard. I know this. I really enjoy it, but I have bombed, I have fluffed, and I have said the wrong thing.