Finn Wolfhard Quotes

Performance is hard. I know this. I really enjoy it, but I have bombed, I have fluffed, and I have said the wrong thing.

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

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 stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

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.

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

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

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.

I auditioned for 'Jake in Progress,' and I was nervous because I had a big crush on John Stamos. I was totally thrown off and couldn't remember my lines.

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

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.

If I've done a gig and at the end there are people waiting for autographs, they always seem nervous, but they probably don't realise that I'm more nervous than them. I get very embarrassed.

I'm awkward under the limelight.

I was once so terrified of acting that I used to pretend I was ill to get out of drama.