John Cho Quotes

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

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

I've started to get more stage fright the older I get.

I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

During my teen years, I just really started to get anxiety. I would get stage fright when I would do certain speaking engagements and I always would get through them, but it was a really nerve-racking and hard thing to do.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

I'm used to being nervous for shows in general.

I get quite fearful about interviews, so I sought advice from other actors.

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

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

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

I am a person who dreads any kind of public exposure and any kind of public event. I spend all day, if I have to do a reading, preparing.

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.

Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.

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

Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.