Natasia Demetriou Quotes

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

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 felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

Getting up in front of an audience is my biggest motivation.

Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"

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.

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

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

I've realized that I can do performances.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I'm like, 'Maybe that's not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.'

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

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

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.