Jerry Lewis Quotes

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.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

I have never known stage-fright at any time.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

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

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

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.

Every time you get in front of the lights and the cameras and you think, 'Okay, well, we've done this before, but we have to do it again? Oh, we're doing it again? We're doing it again?' It's so gratifying, but I don't think I'll ever get used to it. I hope I won't.

I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.

Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

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

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

Auditioning is the most terrifying thing I've ever done. There must have been four or five of them where I completely froze up and walked out of the room. My palms get sweaty just thinking about it.

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

I don't want to be able to see the audience.