Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some reduce you to a gibbering wreck.

I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.

Performing was terrifying.

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.

I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

Acting scares me.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself.

Interviews usually upset me in one way or another.

The first thing that was intimidating was when I started rehearsing to play Riff in the London company. That first day of rehearsal, I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm never going to learn this. I'm too slow.'

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

Whenever you give a shot, the nervous energy in your stomach is the key to that emotional breakdown, that kick that is needed to perform.

It's okay to feel nervous before a competition because it means you care about doing well.

The pressure was huge going into London, definitely.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

I am extremely nervous before anything. People who say they aren't nervous are telling a white lie. Nerves get you going, as you are playing for so much at the highest level.

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out.

Every competition I do, I never know if it's the last one.

I've been nervous a number of times. Your first start. Playing in the Super Bowl. Your first Super Bowl. Very nerve-racking. The one thing that you can always fall back on is that you know what you are doing. You know how to play the game.