Emily Atack Quotes

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

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 had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I've gotten better at it, I've started to enjoy it. It's made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

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.

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

I didn't grow up jumping in front of the class and performing, but I definitely had a hunger to be creative.

I was still afraid to sing in front of people before 'Glee.'

You could put me on a stage in front of 100 people, and I could do a tap dance, but one-on-one was really difficult for me. And it took me most of my life to learn how to work with that anxiety, to embrace and be comfortable with it.

I fell into acting because I was really shy, and so at night after work, I took public speaking and improv classes, and I started going to auditions sort of as a dare. That was my version of 'Fear Factor.'

I was so shy, I couldn't stand up in front of people and speak. Now I'm in the next big three Bollywood movies.

Something I would have never thought that I could have done before is dancing in front of thousands of people. It changed how people view me in a negative and a positive way.

Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but to myself.

If I could borrow anything from Miley, it would be her stage confidence. For me, that's just going to come with time.

I always wanted to solo at the church and they didn't ever give it to me. But eventually they did and I froze. But then I killed it.

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.