Charlyne Yi Quotes

Onstage, it's more of a momentary pressure.

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

When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

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.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.

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.

After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it. I just, you know, I want it to be a good show, and I want people to get their money's worth.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

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'm used to being nervous for shows in general.

Singing Flower of Scotland was the only thing that made me nervous.I don't get nervous doing my own shows.

I get quite fearful about interviews, so I sought advice from other actors.

I used to get the most anxiety before shows because I really was never prepared.

The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick.

It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.

When you're opening for someone, there's no pressure.

Nerves can happen to even the best of us. It's not easy to compete.

Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.

I will say that, I, being a Jew, experience unease before I go onstage; and after I go onstage, and in general. But luckily the forty-five minutes to an hour that I'm onstage I usually forget everything else and I just press play.

I feel nervous before performing in live concerts, but it does not last more than five minutes.

I get nervous every single time. It doesn't matter if there're five people or five thousand. What I have noticed is that the more people there are, the less nervous I am. It's way harder to impress five people.

I love, love, love to rehearse, but when you're rehearsing and then you go do it at night, it's a very weird thing.

I started to have panic attacks on stage and my wife just asked, "Why don't you just stop?" I was doing Ghost Whisperer at the time so I was making enough money where I could put it away and she said, "Then, when you go back, you just go up and tell the truth." And it's a lot more tiring.

Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.