Kevin Nealon Quotes

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get.

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

I'm actually sometimes nervous right before a performance, but as soon as I'm on the stage I'm like, 'okay, we're gonna rock this baby.'

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

I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

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

I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.

I've got to be comfortable when I'm on stage.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.

Going out to play a game in front of 100,000 spectators doesn't worry me. Nothing to it.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

We've been in front of really big audiences, and people have said there's a couple of hundred thousand people out there, but I've never really noticed.

It's one thing to practise in front of a mirror at home, but another to do it in front of 800 people or on live TV.

I have been dancing for a really long time, but when I get on stage, I forget all about that!

I was not nervous while making 'Nazar' because I was well prepared. I took three months to prepare. When I went on the sets, I knew what I was doing.

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.