Kate Micucci Quotes

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

I don't know how you can do comedy once every two weeks. Ever since I started, if I'm off for three days, I got to learn how to do comedy again.

There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.

I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.

This accident, or incident, happened in the most secure place I could have felt I was in: Walking onstage with my guitar, you know?

There've been times where, like when I auditioned for 'Akeelah,' I think in the first audition I was a little bit afraid because it was, you know, I had seen girls in there that I had seen on TV before, and I was like, 'Man, I might as well just walk out of here now because I'm just a newcomer,' and this and that.

You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.

When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous, and I am capable of doing something to blow it on purpose. A lot of actors have that problem.

With rap, you go in the studio, you make music, you put the music out, then all of a sudden, you're a star: you have a big record on the radio, and you're on stage, and you've never done it before. Let's say your first show is 'Summer Jam,' and you're in front of 60,000 people, and you've never played an arena, ever. You're gonna suck.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

People strike out. I strike out a lot - it happens. Just got to keep working.

Every time an artiste goes on stage, he thinks 'I hope today goes well and I hope I give my best.' That is important - that little bit of nervousness or tension is what makes you perform better.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

It was a nerve-wracking first few years having to tour and perform in front of people with the little bit of confidence I had.

Not playing off of an audience is very challenging.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.

I stand on stage hoping to give good energy to the audience, but if I cannot give good energy anymore, I will have to leave right away.

I feel like it's harder to perform in front of a smaller crowd sometimes still than it is a larger crowd.

Obviously nobody likes it when you walk offstage, including your band.

When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.

No matter how the day's going, when I get out there on that stage, it makes it all all right.