Lucy Griffiths Quotes

I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

It is important for an actor to learn how to face a live audience.

When people sit in front of a microphone, they feel empowered.

As a presenter, you have to speak with artificial energy and enthusiasm.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.

I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

You have to open up on stage.

I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

There's just something about being on stage and being with the people that, once that camera turns on, you find the strength to keep it cool, look good, act like you're not cold, act like you ain't nervous, act like you aren't scared. I think that comes with confidence and practice.

There's nothing about the stage to be afraid of; there's nothing about the cameras to be afraid of. You just have to be yourself.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.