Saffron Burrows Quotes

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I sweat on stage a lot.

I always get nervous when performing. Always!

The idea of appearing in front of an audience or on live TV terrifies me.

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 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.

For me, for every single job, I don't care if it is a reading, I don't care if it is a guest spot on a TV show, or a film. I always get the heebie jeebies.

I'm used to being nervous for shows in general.

I could play a gig on the moon and not be nervous about it.

Figure out a way to get back onstage because once you do it a few times you'll get over it. Unless it's like a clinical thing. I don't know about clinical like stage fright, that might be worse than what I'm talking about. But if it's normal stage fright get over it.

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.

It is very difficult for me to accept the fact that I am acting in front of the camera.

I don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.

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

Performing is the one time I don't have anxiety - surprisingly, right?

It's hard to act in front of a lot of people.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

If I'm confident in my ability to do something, I never get nervous about it. If I was to get up and try to sing in front of 50,000 people, I'd fall to pieces. But boxing, I find it really comfortable.

Stage fright is a real thing. It's debilitating to some people.

I actually fear appearing on entertainment shows a bit.

At first, I wasn't really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

Personally, I have a hard time playing live. A big part of it is because the lyrics are really private.