Jimmy Carr Quotes

You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.

I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.

I'm not good at interacting with people and am terrified to get onstage, so I just go up there, freak out and, most of the time, pack up and go home immediately after.

I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

I could never go onstage in denims.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

I'm a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I'm home and haven't done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling.

It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.

I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.

The whole thing with playing on a stage with mics and all that has always been kind of uncomfortable to me.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

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.

I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.

I'm still a really shy performer and can't wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.

It's very strange to wake up in my own bed, as weird as that sounds, because I'm always on the road.

There was no way I was gonna be in a band and show my face.

You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day. I remember the first time we got off one of our first big tours, I told my guys, "Go home to your girlfriends." The next day, all my guys texted me like, "Do you wanna, like, do something? Let's all go bowling. I can't hang with people that live normal lives."