Adam Schlesinger Quotes

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

I think most other comics are like, 'I'm going to do my fkin' act and that'll be that.' With me, it's like, 'What if I forget my jokes? What if I can't pull it together? This is going to be a fking disaster!'

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

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

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

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.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

I definitely get nervous about if I'm going to forget the words to the songs or something. And I don't enjoy being the center of attention for an hour straight - I think that's really stressful.

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

When I started 'The Soup' back in 2004, I was so anxious because I can't really read, and I had to read teleprompter.

At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

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

I can't understand it myself - how nervous I was when I took the floor for 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I walk out with 50,000 people gathered in the Millennium Stadium to fight Mikkel Kessler in the unification fight for the super middleweight division in 2007, and I feel great... and here I am, wearing tight pants and Cuban heels, and freaking out.

I was the kid in class who was afraid to get called on.

It's a horrible feeling to go in front of an audience when you don't feel right.