Samantha Bond Quotes

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

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

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

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 still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

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.

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

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

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'

I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

During my teen years, I just really started to get anxiety. I would get stage fright when I would do certain speaking engagements and I always would get through them, but it was a really nerve-racking and hard thing to do.

When I first started performing, I was a nervous wreck. Honestly, sometimes I felt like I was going to run off the stage.

I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.

I tap my fingers and cheekbones before going on stage to calm down. But nerves are necessary; if you ever lose them, it's a bad sign.

Singing Flower of Scotland was the only thing that made me nervous.I don't get nervous doing my own shows.

I throw up before every show. I'm thinking about just making it part of the act.