Matthew Vaughn Quotes

I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

I could never imagine myself acting in front of a camera or doing anything in front of the camera. I was a very shy girl.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

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

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.

I'm scared of audiences.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

You have that moment just before you go on - I've had it in every play - where you just kind of want to run away. There's a whole audience, and they are waiting outside, and you're like, 'Why am I doing this again? Why? Why?'

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

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

I'm comfortable in front of the camera, but I can't act.

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

Live TV would terrify anybody.