Gwen Stefani Quotes

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

In high school, I was too shy to perform. It's one thing to get laughs from your family, to be funny at parties and in class. It's another thing to get up on the stage.

If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together.

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

I never got nervous performing my own material.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

I'm not a natural born performer.

Getting up in front of the toughest crowds, you know, playing pubs in South Armagh - where people didn't necessarily even know what stand-up comedy was - you had to force yourself to do it. It went against every instinct in your body, but you did it anyway.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

On stage the spotlight is on me and I cannot afford to be shy.

I had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I've gotten better at it, I've started to enjoy it. It's made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.