Marsha Thomason Quotes

In my job, I worry a lot and try and stay calm and open. It sometimes works.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.

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

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.

I hate flying. I literally cry in the airport sometimes. I didn't used to; the more I fly, the worse it gets. It's weird!

Big things, a real crisis, I think I'm pretty good, but this little thing will just wallop me. I think I'm managing depression better now: when the mood comes, I just try and sit it out.

I hate flying. It creeps me out, and it scares me half to death.

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 got this advice that if you know a panic attack is happening, just sit back and go, 'Okay, this is happening to me, but it'll be over. You'll be fine. You'll live.'

I used to be really nervous to perform in front of people. I would cry.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

Panic is our great enemy.

Panic, not the task, is the enemy.

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I still start to get panicky each morning before I go on television. I'll say, 'I'm in awful shape, something is wrong,' and if I start to look like I'm going off the deep end, Jimmy Straka, the stage manager, will say, 'You're all right. Calm down.' Then Bryant Gumbel will grab me by the leg or something.

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 don't put myself under pressure.