George Jessel Quotes

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

I definitely get stage fright.

I have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.

I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great. Fine. Whatever.' Coming to speak to about 60 kids, I am scared to death.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

I don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.

It's a horrible feeling to go in front of an audience when you don't feel right.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

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

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

I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

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

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.