Jason Robards Quotes

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

I still get nervous before every performance.

I get kinda nervous before every show.

I don't drink before shows.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

You always get apprehensive before you do shoots.

I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

No matter how many shows I've done, as soon as they say it's time to start, I get that nervous sensation and feel like I have to pee. So that's where my mind is. That and making it to the end of the runway and back as fast as I can.

I remember playing the Royal Albert Hall, and a guy would say, 'Ten minutes to stage time,' and I'd get so nervous.

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

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.

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage.

I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

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.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.

I'm nervous before all shows.

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

Even when you're right in the middle of a tour and you've done 30 or 40 shows, you still get them butterflies in the stomach right before you go on stage.

When I play on stage, I have to drink a glass of water.