If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.
From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around.
I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.
I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.
With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.
I'm a different guy on stage.
My strength lies in prepping. I'm not someone who can just walk onto the set and perform.
I don't like to play live. And if I don't like to do it, why should I?
I still see myself on TV and think, 'Oh my God, I'm on a television, and there are millions of people watching,' and I get really nervous and embarrassed and insecure.
I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.
Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
There's a picture of me as a little girl, and I'm waiting to go onstage, and I am biting the last bit of nail I have left on my finger.
Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.
Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I've literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, gone straight on stage or gone crazy. It's not like I psyche myself; I don't do any of that.
The biggest problem for people who get really, really nervous when they perform live is that you think everybody's looking at you.
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.
I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.
I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.
When you're just reading a note card but when you're just reading a note card and it doesn't even feel real, it's difficult at times. But I have no problem doing interviews. So I have absolutely no problem doing interviews.
I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.
The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.
Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
In school productions, I was always villager No. 7. I was never at the front of the stage dancing and never had any lines.
What holds you back in comedy is fear.
I'll keep going until I get to the point where I can't get out on stage.
