Marilyn Manson Quotes

For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

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 haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.

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.

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

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

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I always get nervous before a gig, so I look over my writing, trying not to fantasise about all the things that could go horribly wrong.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

Performing was terrifying.

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

The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

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.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.

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

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

I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.