Anohni Quotes

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 wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

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

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.

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking onstage.

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

Stage fright is my worst problem.

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

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

I definitely get stage fright.

I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.

I don't want to embarrass myself on TV!

I have stage fright really badly.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don't. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

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

Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

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

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

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.

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.