Mae Martin Quotes

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.

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

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.

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.

In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

There's nothing about the stage to be afraid of; there's nothing about the cameras to be afraid of. You just have to be yourself.

I reached the stage where I was afraid to wiggle my leg, but then I thought 'why shouldn't I?' It's what I do and now I know how to turn an audience on again.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go!

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

I never got nervous performing my own material.

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.