Nicole Appleton Quotes

You get very comfortable doing the open mic circuit, turning up to the same places and playing to 20 people. In that situation, it won't matter if you aren't great on that night because no one will really remember who you are. Then suddenly you are doing rooms to 400 people and you have to up your game.

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

The best feeling I get is when I walk on stage.

Being able to control a live crowd at the ESPYs, that's fun.

The only reason I signed on for a speech and drama course was because I thought it would be easy, but as soon as I stepped on the stage, I thought, 'This is exactly where I belong.'

I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both.

When I finished playing, I didn't think I would be able to replace the buzz you feel at kick-off, but when the light on top of the camera turns red, and you're about to go live to the nation, it is a very similar feeling.

Walking out in front of 80,000 spectators was unbelievable.

Being on 'America's Got Talent' has really helped me expand my self-confidence on the stage and anywhere - I'm more comfortable, and it's just really helped, and I'm glad about that.

I think I'm getting more and more experience playing on big stages, and I think that's going to help me with everything.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

I would want to start. I want to run out there in front of 20,000 people and get my name announced. I get it. I get that.

I'm someone who is quite shy, and onstage I'm quite... extrovert.

I love people who go on stage and blossom like a weird flower.

The first time that I stepped onto a stage, it was life-changing. For once, I felt comfortable and in a place where I belonged. It changed my life forever.

I was 12 when I was on stage for the first time and had an epiphany that this is what I wanted to do.

I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first time I got on stage and recited something. I fell in love with the stage at the age of 12.

Taking pictures and stuff, I'm kind of like, shy, but you couldn't tell onstage.

I really, really love being on stage now.

I'm generally a fairly shy, withheld person. But when I get onstage, I get a bit mad.

When I was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced that I didn't want to do anything else.

Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

It's definitely a high when you walk onstage and everybody starts applauding before you even say anything.

There was an open mic night when I was about 11 years old and I went and I played the songs that I'd written in my bedroom and it was the first night where I felt like I was myself at school.

Theatre has been a sort of hobby. I regret that I am not active, but given my job that is difficult. But those were learning days. The learning curve was the level of confidence, maturity, and reflexes that theatre teaches you is fantastic. You are alone in front of an audience for two hours and that gives you a different kind of confidence.