Chris Paul Quotes

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

I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

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 don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

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.

It's quite pretentious, really, isn't it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a half. Think too much about that and anxiety takes over.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

I have performed my one-man show '700 Sundays' over 400 times now. There were only two times that I can honestly say I was nervous. The first was when I knew Mel Brooks was in the audience, and the second was when Sid Caesar came.

I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.

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

Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

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

I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don't. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.

I get a bit nervous because I just want the show to go well. I think you always have to be a little bit nervous, or else you're a little checked-out, and that's maybe the time when you're not doing your best stuff, because you're kind of just checked-out and falling back on stuff.

I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.