Amy Winehouse Quotes

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

When I get nervous, I get word vomit.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.

I was in sixth grade the first time I was required to speak in front of an audience. I had terrible stage fright and felt quite ill, in fact, by the time I had to give my little talk to students in another class across the hall.

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

I was very nervous about giving speeches for a long time.

I've got a speech impediment.

I'm not much of a public speaker.

I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other people's clothes and pretending to be somebody else, which is completely crazy choice of profession. So, I don't enjoy public speaking and I have every sympathy for anyone who has to do it and doesn't enjoy it.

Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

I was a closet stutterer.

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.