Pre-Performance Nerves Quotes

I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.

I throw up before every show. I'm thinking about just making it part of the act.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

Every time before I go on stage, I'm nervous.

I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there's a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won't prevent you form performing, nerves that, hopefully, allow you to be that much more motivated and inspired to do well.

It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.

I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, I'll hit a brick wall and need to sleep.

I am always nervous about doing voice-over work. I'm always clammy and I worry, "What if my voice squeaks? What if I don't deliver it right?" Until you start saying the lines, it's always nerve-wracking, for some reason, and I've never gotten over that.

You always get apprehensive before you do shoots.

I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.