Michael Strahan Quotes

There's nothing about the stage to be afraid of; there's nothing about the cameras to be afraid of. You just have to be yourself.

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera.

The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.

I feel pretty comfortable in front of a camera.

I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

I'm always so nervous when I have to do interviews or be on 'The Tonight Show' or the 'Oprah' show, where I have to be myself. I don't know why that's such a big deal - being yourself. But for some reason, I feel good in a dark room talking to actors about acting, doing acting. I like sitting backstage watching people work.

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

I've never wanted to be on television for the sake of it, I suppose because I'm not one of life's natural presenters; I'm not an actor.

To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

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.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

It's hard to talk about yourself onstage and be sincere about it.

I'm comfortable in front of the camera, but I can't act.

When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.

I've always thought of myself as so unsuited to be a frontman.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.

Inherently, I'm not a huge extrovert, so I actually find interviews and all the glamour to be a bit challenging sometimes.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.