Aubrie Sellers Quotes

When I first started out, I was really, really scared when I performed before an audience. I'd look over their heads.

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.

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?'

Performing was terrifying.

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

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

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.

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

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

I look at is as one single entity. I dehumanize the audience. This way, I don't get nervous, you know?

Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.

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.

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

I'm not a natural performer: I have a natural stage fright.

I'm still nervous every time I act. I'm not when I'm doing stunts.

My first-night jitters are so bad, I can't even hold a tea cup, but once I am over that, I get really into it.

It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

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.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.