Pre-Show Jitters Quotes

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

I'm nervous before every day of work, almost. Even after six years of 'Breaking Bad.'

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

Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

I'm nervous the first few songs, and then I'm like, 'I got this audience. I'm ready!'

I've never gotten over what they call stagefright. I go through it every show. I'm pretty concerned, I'm pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don't let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it's a new crowd out there, it's a new audience, and they haven't seen us before. So it's got to be like the first time we go on.

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

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

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.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

I've had to ban my mum from coming to see me play. She gets so nervous before any show. I've always got a few nerves but she's so much worse than me. You'd think she'd be able to handle that kind of situation. After all, she is a concert pianist.

I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good. I haven't achieved anything."

I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

I don't know about other comedians, but I know that I never have felt anything like stage fright. I've felt nervous before big shows, but I think that's different than stage fright.

That's what I always enjoyed about acting, the real adrenalin rush. My heart - still before I go on stage - crashing out of my chest. That's thrilling to me.

I get extremely nervous before performances. I pray and try to look at it as, 'I'll go out there and have fun,' but it's very nerve-wracking for me. I don't think that will ever change.

I'm nervous before all shows.

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.

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.