Michael Buffer Quotes

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

You have that moment just before you go on - I've had it in every play - where you just kind of want to run away. There's a whole audience, and they are waiting outside, and you're like, 'Why am I doing this again? Why? Why?'

I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

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.

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.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

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.

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.

I'm scared of audiences.

I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would be like, 'Oh, God.' It would completely terrify me, even though I'm such a junkie for the show.

Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

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.

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

I don't like to get in front of people.

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.

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

Stage fright is my worst problem.