Dakota Johnson Quotes

I'm always nervous before playing a gig, to tell you the truth. It's what nearly did me in when I was with the Libertines. I just couldn't handle it.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.

I have played in matches where individuals have frozen and gone into their shells: they don't want the ball, they don't communicate, and they don't do their jobs. Fear turns them to stone.

For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

I never stop getting nervous. I'm nervous before every single show.

In the past, before games, I would near enough make myself ill. Nerves and stuff.

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

Auditioning is the worst.

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

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

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

Live TV would terrify anybody.

I think I'm prone to panic.