Jennifer Garner Quotes

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.

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

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

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

I don't think that just because you go on stage you are an exhibitionist.

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

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

I didn't have any media training - I didn't have anybody but myself.

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

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

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

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

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

I'm not a natural born performer.

One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I don't know anything.' The only thing I'd ever technically studied was filmmaking.

I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.

In third grade, my teacher asked me to read in front of the class. I was so touched because that really was the first acting I had ever done, just reading in front of the class. And I was so amazed with the fulfillment I got from being in front of people.