Kathleen Hanna Quotes

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

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

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. "Why did I say yes to this?" But once you're on the stage you think, "Okay."

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

Stop worrying, nobody gets out of this world alive.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual death] right, you can go looking good. Maybe with a little quip [like]: 'I loved everybody.' But dying on stage...Oh, God!

I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.

I have never known stage-fright at any time.

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.

I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed. I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

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

Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I'm like, 'Maybe that's not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.'

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.