Trevor Noah Quotes

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I really love live performing!

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.

I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

For me, performing isn't really particularly difficult.

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'

I get a little teary on stage sometimes. It can be really emotional when it dawns on you that people are singing along and having fun.