Emma Bunton Quotes

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

I've started to get more stage fright the older I get.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

During my teen years, I just really started to get anxiety. I would get stage fright when I would do certain speaking engagements and I always would get through them, but it was a really nerve-racking and hard thing to do.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.

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

It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.

I used to be really nervous to perform in front of people. I would cry.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

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.

I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic panic attacks. It'll be in a very easy, simple scene when everything is going swimmingly, and then suddenly, bang, I'm shvitzing and can't remember my lines.

I have social anxiety.

I don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.

I never stop getting nervous. I'm nervous before every single show.

You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

Stage fright is my worst problem.