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“I have never had one moment of stage fright and performing has always been a huge thrill and source of enjoyment for me. It's part of my personality.”

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Author:Shakira

“I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.”

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Author:John Lydon

“The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if they just succumbed to it. There's this love/hate relationship with the spotlight.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“I got on stage and I went, "Oh wow. No stage fright." I couldn't do public speaking, and I couldn't play the piano in front of people, but I could act. I found that being on stage, I felt, "This is home." I felt an immediate right thing, and the exchange between the audience and the actors on stage was so fulfilling. I just went, "That is the conversation I want to have."”

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Author:Holly Hunter

“It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.”

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Author:Jean-Benoit Dunckel

“The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.”

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Author:Dee Dee Ramone

“I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.”

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Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I still get stage fright every time. I also feel very, very sleepy about a minute before we go on. Like I feel like I'm going to fall asleep. I can't explain it. It's sort of like, "Where's the energy going to come from to play this show?" Then all of a sudden you step up and there it is, it's like it's waiting for you.”

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Author:Jonathan Meiburg

“I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.”

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Author:John Lydon

“I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.”

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Author:John Lydon

“I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?”

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Author:Stevie Nicks

“I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.”

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Author:Sean Penn

“In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.”

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Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.”

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Author:Brian Wilson

“He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next”

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Book:Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death

Source: Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death

“Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way." A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.”

“Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.”

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Author:Tim Ferriss

“['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.”

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Author:James Taylor

“The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.”

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Author:Alain Badiou

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

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Author:Ednita Nazario

“I originally started it to help me with anxiety & insomnia. It’s already made my life waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better & even with my stage fright. Which I used to think there was no cure for…Last night was the first night I’ve slept 8 hours naturally in my entire life. I felt the best I have in ages. It’s better than any medication or all of the other nonsense I’ve tried.”

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Author:Sky Ferreira

“I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.”

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Author:Bob Denver

“I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.”

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Author:Brooke Burke

“And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT”

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Author:Nicki Minaj

“I have never known stage-fright at any time.”

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Author:Kate Smith

“I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.”

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Book:Merman: an autobiography

Source: Merman: an autobiography

“I have big, big stage fright.”

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Author:Andrea Bocelli

“The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright”

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Author:William Hurt

“I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.”

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Author:Alan Rickman

“I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.”

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Author:Sheridan Smith

“I definitely get stage fright.”

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Author:Bridgit Mendler

“I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.”

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Author:Renee Fleming

“Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.”

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Author:Kara DioGuardi

“I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.”

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Author:Lydia Davis

“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.”

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Author:Britt Ekland

“The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.”

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Author:Britt Ekland

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