Patina Miller Quotes

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

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

I have been dancing for a really long time, but when I get on stage, I forget all about that!

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.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.

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

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

On stage, I am in the dark.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

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

I've never been onstage in my life.

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

I can tell you that many soloists probably wish they could sit.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

I would want to start. I want to run out there in front of 20,000 people and get my name announced. I get it. I get that.

When I go out on the runway, I can feel the audience vibrate.

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

People often tell me that they have no idea how I can do standup. The idea of trying to make a large group of strangers laugh is, for many, absolutely petrifying - and it is - but there are ways of gradually developing the material that can ease the fear.

It's a really strange thing to be doing, to go on stage and all of a sudden have bright lights and spotlights.

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

My mom was like, 'You talk so much. You have too much energy. Why don't you just join the play or something?' It was a comedy, and I got laughs in rehearsal, but onstage, in front of a whole audience, I got a lot of laughs.