Baz Luhrmann Quotes

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

Actors are frightened little children.

I find it scary to sing - scarier than acting actually.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

I'm afraid to do theater now.

I don't like to play live. And if I don't like to do it, why should I?

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!

Just as actors are afraid of child audiences because they're so honest, I would be scared stiff of going before the big folks.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

I have never known stage-fright at any time.

I'm scared of audiences.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

I don't want to be able to see the audience.

That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.

Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.

Plays never feel like the right thing to do at the time.