Nickolas Ashford Quotes

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

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.

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.

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.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

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

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

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

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

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

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

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

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

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

I was so terrified before an audience that I would break out in these ugly red hives, and my lips would quiver at the sight of a word or a song.

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.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

Performing was terrifying.

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