Elaine Paige Quotes

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

I don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm really busy up there, and I'm really busy with everything I have to do for every show. Add having to worry about my voice and singing lead on a song or two, that's not something I necessarily want to do.

In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

Oh, you wouldn't want to hear me sing.

To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

I'm used to being nervous for shows in general.

Broadway is intimidating. Don't think it's not.

It really isn't very glamorous to sing because you have to make all these funny faces to make it sound like the record. You really want to sound the best you can so you have to make all these disgusting faces.

Sometimes when you're stood in front of 100 people, delivering a speech with rage and lots of emotion, that can be utterly terrifying. I find that very scary.

I feel like a lot of pop singers hurt themselves if they don't have the proper training.

I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

If you now have 20 previews, you will regard 19 of them as super-rehearsals, which is fine, except you are being watched by thousands. I remember suggesting on more than one show over the years, 'Let's not have any previews.' But no one agreed with me. If you could do that, however, it would be a great gimmick - no previews, just opening night.

When it's silent or when that energy of the audience isn't there, you feel the bumps a little more. You feel yourself losing breath a little quicker.

There are many problems with being a comedian: the travel, the late nights, the pressure, the fear of running out of funny things to say.

I have stage fright really badly.

I sweat on stage a lot.

Stand up is the most stressful, and hosting and presenting a show has its own stresses, because you've got an audience which you've got to entertain as well as an audience at home.

I still get nervous before every performance.

We know what it's like to audition as kids and how nerve-racking it is.

I don't know why, but I'm more intimidated by sharing my singing than just performing as an actress.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

To be honest, I am scared of acting, and moreover, I want to be perfect on the musical stage first.

I get kinda nervous before every show.