Greg Giraldo Quotes

If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?

Around year seven or eight, you'd kill yourself when you realized Norm had to enter and you had to come up with a new beer joke.

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

I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.

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

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.

I don't know about other comedians, but I know that I never have felt anything like stage fright. I've felt nervous before big shows, but I think that's different than stage fright.

Comedy kind of terrifies me. I feel pretty intimidated.

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

Performing was terrifying.

Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!

I always think the second worst thing in the world is to go on stage at night, and the first worst thing in the world is sitting at home at night. For me, it's scarier to not be doing it than doing it.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

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

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

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

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.