Performance Anxiety Management Quotes

When it comes to performance, I don't like to prepare at all if I don't have to.

My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.

I don't prepare for a live show.

When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

Above all, ignore the audience.

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes me put the brakes on a bit.

When I play on stage, I have to drink a glass of water.

I think there's a, you know, certain kind of freedom for me when I get on stage. Maybe it's because I've held it back for so long that it's made me a little bit of angst inside. It's kind of like this energy needs to come out. And there's a certain sense, you know, of freedom when I get on that stage.

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

When I'm in show mode, I can't even think about putting on makeup; I just have to be centered.

I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!

When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.

In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting.

I warm up at home. I hit the stage, I'm ready, whether it's rehearsal or anything.

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

When I am on stage, I am often thinking about what I will eat after the show.

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.