Peter Serafinowicz Quotes

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

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

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

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

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

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

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.

I was once so terrified of acting that I used to pretend I was ill to get out of drama.

Performing was terrifying.

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

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

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.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

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

I'm scared of audiences.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

You have that moment just before you go on - I've had it in every play - where you just kind of want to run away. There's a whole audience, and they are waiting outside, and you're like, 'Why am I doing this again? Why? Why?'

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