Jessica Williams Quotes

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

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.

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.

I don't like planning what am I gonna say to the crowd. Sometimes the show takes a whole different twist.

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

It's not so much that I don't enjoy playing live - that's one of the best parts of playing music - it's that it's nerve-racking with 300, 500 people watching.

I remember my first ever gig in town, I was very nervous. I had a big red shiny face. But that all disappeared after 30 seconds and I settled down and got a great lift from that.

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

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

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.

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

It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.

It takes a lot of nerves to be a sports entertainer and to be in front of those big crowds.

With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of the time - it's just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.

I would want to start. I want to run out there in front of 20,000 people and get my name announced. I get it. I get that.

I really, really love being on stage now.

Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out.

Everyone will clearly be a bit nervous and scared before going onstage. But what I do is just remember that this is my passion. Once I get on the stage and see everyone smiling and looking at me, the joy that it brings to me makes me forget all about my nerves.