Katie Leclerc Quotes

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

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

When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.

Messing up lines is always embarrassing for me.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.

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.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.

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

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

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

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.

I just decided to play make believe, memorize it like it was just some kind of song and just take the emotion out of the words. And I did. I goofed a couple of times.

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

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

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

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'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.