Richie Sambora Quotes

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.

Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.

The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

My main weakness is nerves.

I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself.

I am not the performing type. I was the one who would cry, throw up or pass out.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

I hate every moment of live performance.

I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

A couple hundred people around, and I'm shaking.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a conscientious singer is never sure of himself or of anything. He is ever in the hands of Destiny.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

Auditioning is the worst.

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.