Elvis Presley Quotes

I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me a little courage. It helps me lose a little bit of the self-consciousness and the awareness of how awkward it is standing on a stage with lights and a bunch of people looking at you while you sing love songs.

Figure out a way to get back onstage because once you do it a few times you'll get over it. Unless it's like a clinical thing. I don't know about clinical like stage fright, that might be worse than what I'm talking about. But if it's normal stage fright get over it.

When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."

I'm so scared of doing theater. I've got stage fright, although they keep asking me to come back.

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.

I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

Stage fright is my worst problem.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

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

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

I liked being on stage; I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.