Britt Baker Quotes

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

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?'

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.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.

Live TV would terrify anybody.

When I started on 'Strictly,' I was terrified. Live television seemed like the most daunting thing in the world.

Oh, I still get a little anxiety when I'm doing NFL live for ESPN.

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

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.

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

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

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

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

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.

I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.

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 can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.