Lisa Stansfield Quotes

You can go onto that stage every night, and it's always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don't know if there's any water in the pool.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

Fear drives you a lot harder than success does.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

Sometimes fear can bring performances out from you.

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

Every day I do something that freaks me out.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

People who are scared don't live life.

Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

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.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.