Jean Dujardin Quotes

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.

I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

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.

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

I'm not a natural born performer.

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

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.

I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great. Fine. Whatever.' Coming to speak to about 60 kids, I am scared to death.