Bill Condon Quotes

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

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.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I'm afraid that I'll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

I'm not a natural born performer.

I was not happy with myself as a human being when I was very young - I was afraid of people; I was afraid of talking, I didn't know how to express myself other than by being on stage.

I didn't think I was much of a public speaker.

Like most people, I hate public speaking.

Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

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.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

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.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.

I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.