Allison Janney Quotes

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

I'm terrified of performing live.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

I'm not nervous coming back to my old audience. I'm looking forward to it. That's really what I do; that's my day job.

I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.

I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so...

I get really nervous right before I go on stage. But once I'm performing, I always love it. It's like being in a different world.

My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends.

I feel energized walking off stage.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

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

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

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.

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

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.

Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over.

I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.

When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.

I've never not appeared in front of a live audience for any longer period than a month or two.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.