Nina Conti Quotes

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

Every time before I go on stage, I'm nervous.

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

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

I've never felt as nervous as I did before a track meet - literally, stomach going crazy - 'cause it was just so difficult.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

Auditioning is the worst.

I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

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

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?