Bill Bradley Quotes

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

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

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

I performed in public for the first time at three years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was on a big stage. There were probably three or four hundred people in the audience. We were doing this dance, this Kermit the Frog routine, all of us in our little green leotards.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

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

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

I remember going on stage for the very first time as a solo act, I was probably, like, nine or 10 years old. And being backstage, I started having anxiety... I was literally getting sick.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

I loathe the idea of going onstage in a T-shirt and jeans.

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.

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

I'm scared of audiences.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane.

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

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

I remember the first time I spoke to an editor. I thought I'd be sick, I was so nervous. The first time I spoke to a large group at a conference, I had the jitters for days beforehand.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.