Callum Turner Quotes

I'm still nervous every time I act. I'm not when I'm doing stunts.

I get nervous playing the Opry still. You take that nervous energy and channel it into being amped.

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

No matter how many shows I've done, as soon as they say it's time to start, I get that nervous sensation and feel like I have to pee. So that's where my mind is. That and making it to the end of the runway and back as fast as I can.

It's scary for me to act. It's terrifying. But I must be addicted to the adrenaline rush of the fear. It's like bungee jumping, I suppose. But after I accomplish it, I get this great sense of satisfaction and an overwhelming feeling of well being.

I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people.

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.

Every time you go up to the board, you get scared. It's more like adrenaline, though - you feel pumped and ready to go.

When it's silent or when that energy of the audience isn't there, you feel the bumps a little more. You feel yourself losing breath a little quicker.

I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous the bigger the gig. But you need those butterflies: they make you feel alive.

Being in a career and going from highlight to highlight and playing a lot of matches you go through it and think it's normal when you play in front of 60,000 and you almost want to vomit in front of every game.

I tap my fingers and cheekbones before going on stage to calm down. But nerves are necessary; if you ever lose them, it's a bad sign.

I think nerves are part and parcel of working as an actor. You can either work against them or you can embrace them, and I very much embrace them.

I get nervous all the time. Both on and off stage. You just hope it turns into adrenaline.

I like to be nervous, as I push myself harder.

It's like a cosmic joke that people dream to perform in front of a huge crowd. But it is a welcomed challenge. I hope I always have that positive apprehension.

Even when you're right in the middle of a tour and you've done 30 or 40 shows, you still get them butterflies in the stomach right before you go on stage.

When I'm about to go on stage, and I look out and just see the fans filled out in the arena, all pumped up and screaming - that gives me butterflies! I just love that feeling, and I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, it's gonna be a great show!'

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out.

I always have to poop right before I do a concert. I don't feel nervous, but I think that must be my body reacting.

On stage, I'm always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It's strange because I have to turn my back on the audience, and my audience is the orchestra. I communicate my energy to them, and they communicate it to the audience behind me!