Susan Cain Quotes

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

I have to make a speech tomorrow and prefer to lose my foot.

Sometimes when you're stood in front of 100 people, delivering a speech with rage and lots of emotion, that can be utterly terrifying. I find that very scary.

I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

The confidence and charisma it takes to stand up in front of a group of children absolutely terrifies me.

I'm scared of audiences.

What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.

I was in sixth grade the first time I was required to speak in front of an audience. I had terrible stage fright and felt quite ill, in fact, by the time I had to give my little talk to students in another class across the hall.

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

Performing was terrifying.

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

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

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

Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.

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.'

Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

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

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

I'm a horrible public speaker.