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“Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.”

Stage Fame Trembling Fright Stage Fright

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.”

Grace Conditions Stage Divine Anxiety Madness Sacred Sufficient Fright Insufficient Ailments Stage Fright Jesuit Epilepsy

Author:Charles Rosen

“I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.”

Knows Know How Stage Goes On Drug Horrible Right Thing Get Over Fright Stage Fright

Author:Roseanne Barr

“People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.”

People Ifs Way Fighting Stage Havens Comfortable Get Away Fright Stage Fright

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.”

Thinking Important Fun Stage Healthy Scared Fright Push Yourself Stage Fright

Author:Rose Leslie

“Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.”

Feels Firsts Left Music Careers Stage First Time Concerts Fright Nervousness Stage Fright

Author:Pablo Casals

“My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.”

Actors Fire Stage Revolution Performances Theater Fright Pentagon Stage Fright Typhoons

Book:THE GIFT HORSE

Source: THE GIFT HORSE

“Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.”

Able School Stage Drama High School Nerves Fright Stage Fright

Author:Constance Marie

“Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.”

People Made Enough Stage Fronts Television Fright Stage Fright Live Television

Author:Bill Hader

“Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.”

Thinking Years Stage Get Over Fright Stage Fright

Author:Amy Schumer

“There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.”

Knows Feels Has Beens Play Action Language Audience Player Stage Speech Our Time Phenomenon Frightening Incapable Symptoms Reliance Experimentation Fright Incapacity Stage Fright

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.”

People Ifs Speak Stage Fright Stage Fright

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.”

People Years Firsts Light Stage New Year Lectures Fright Stage Fright

Author:John Edensor Littlewood

“I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."”

People Ifs Want Feels Trying Special Stage Succeed Evening Really Great Fright Stage Fright Good Evening

Author:Laurie Anderson

“I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.”

Knows Feels Stories Dies Space Novel Comedy Failing Stage Short Story Fright Stage Fright

Author:Sefi Atta

“You always get nervous on stage because when you get up there, you want to do great. The crowd has you pumped up so there are always a little bit of butterflies. That's all part of it. But as far as getting stage fright, clamming up there, not generally, I just enjoy it on stage and have a great time.”

Want Littles Bits Enjoy Stage Little Bit Crowds Nervous Get Up Butterfly Great Times Fright Stage Fright

Author:Easton Corbin

“A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.”

Littles Fear Bits Stage Ready Little Bit Fright Stage Fright

Author:Faith Hill

“Stage fright and acting blocks are just unfocused or misplaced energy. Everything is possible if you know how and where to focus to invite inspiration...Inspiration is a sensation in the body. It can be invited upon your will and willingness to experience it taking you over.”

Ifs Knows Body Inspiration Energy Acting Know How Focus Stage Block Willingness Sensations Invites Invited Fright Misplaced Stage Fright

Author:Marjo-Riikka Makela

“Stage fright is my worst problem.”

Problem Worst Stage Fright Stage Fright

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.”

“Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.”

People Kind Stage Ridiculous Impression Associates Fever Fright Stage Fright Bad Impression

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.”

Ifs Stage Car Cry Serious Singing Performances Dishes Showers Basements Fright Stage Fright

Author:Michelle Chamuel

“Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.”

People Doe Night Courses Stage Opening Fright Stage Fright Opening Night

Author:Joan Collins

“I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.”

Has Beens Stage Nervous Fright Stage Fright

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“Yes, I was scared, it was like stage fright, but I worked through it. If you've gotten to the door, you shouldn't doubt you can open it.”

Ifs Doubt Doors Stage Scared Fright Stage Fright

Author:Lara Fabian

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