Floyd Skloot Quotes

You can't be in the zone in front of 12 million people, you've got to be chill.

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.

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

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

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.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

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 get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

When I get nervous, I get word vomit.

I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.

There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.

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.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

My very first live shot was from the White House lawn. I literally almost threw up. I was so scared out of my mind. It was horrible.

I'm not a super nervous guy in general. I don't live a ton of my life in my head.

I don't know about you, but for me, if I got to present any kind of award, I'm shaking in my pants.

It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember something that I studied the night before. All it did was trigger my anxiety, and all of sudden everything would snowball on me.