Nina Conti Quotes

Performing live is easy in front of an audience.

I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

Once you step on that stage, to me, that's where I feel most comfortable - performing live. So that's something would do each and every day of my life if I could.

There's some anxiety the 30 minutes before the show starts. But once you step on stage and face the people, everything goes away, and you have fun and enjoy the audience.

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

The thing is, I'm happiest when I'm on stage.

If someone has an ability to impress an audience there's a tendency to be tempted into doing just that.

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

I can bring a crowd down. There should be a contest for that.

The excitement does not change. After 40 years in the business, I still find the show to be a magical moment - the performance anxiety, the litmus test.

Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.

I would say I locked into my persona pretty early; I wouldn't say it's how I am naturally, but it's how I am naturally when I'm on a stage in front of people. That anxiety makes me be the character that I am.

Stand up is the most stressful, and hosting and presenting a show has its own stresses, because you've got an audience which you've got to entertain as well as an audience at home.

Ever since I was a kid, I loved being up in front of people. I loved making people laugh; I never had any stage fright.

For me, every time I step on the stage it feels like a battle is about to start. It's not like we're going on stage to fight against our audience obviously, because for me, when I go on stage, I'm always trying to reach a new level of how am I going to make today a great night for everyone that's present.

I don't want to be known as 'oh, Dervla, when she's on stage she's very good but she's terribly dreary', or 'another heavy night with Kirwan.'

Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.

I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.

I like playing in front of the crowd and get them into it.