Fright Quotes · Page 4

Stage fright is a real thing. It's debilitating to some people.

— Ari Shaffir

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

— Mason Cooley

“I couldn't tell what was real and what was my own fright.”

— Julie Berry

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

— Karl Kraus

I'm not a natural performer: I have a natural stage fright.

— Dan Mintz

“Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget. ~Crispin.~”

— J.L. Clayton

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

— Jack Barakat

The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.

— Shel Silverstein

When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did…

— Atticus Shaffer

“What should be standing in the shoes of passion, and be walking on the plans of action is sitting in the ink…

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Hildegard Knef

Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

— Garth Nix

I had stage fright for years and years, and I could hear it in my singing. But since I've done it so…

— Johnny Mathis

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream…

— Danny Elfman

I was in sixth grade the first time I was required to speak in front of an audience. I had terrible stage…

— Steve Allen

I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater… I have terrible…

— Scarlett Johansson

Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in…

— Anna Godbersen

I hadn't been on the big screen in 40 years when I did the horror film 'Fright Night,' so during production of…

— Amanda Bearse

Whatever’s there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache…

— Thomas Lynch

In China there was once a man who liked pictures of dragons, and his clothing and furnishings were all designed accordingly. His…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“And then, in a skittering, chittering rush, it came. The hand, running high on its fingertips, scrabbled through the tall grass and…

— Neil Gaiman

“Sometimes we cannot see or hear or breathe because of our fright that this is all our bodies will know. We're scared…

— Helen Oyeyemi

I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't…

— Damien Chazelle

Stage fright and acting blocks are just unfocused or misplaced energy. Everything is possible if you know how and where to focus…

— Marjo-Riikka Makela

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...…

— George Orwell

I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the…

— Peter Matthiessen

“The world (including Drapervilleh is not a nice place, and the innocent and the young have to take their chances. They cannot…

— William Maxwell

“Walpurgis Night, when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad - when the graves were opened and…

— Bram Stoker

English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the…

— Neal Ascherson

“Something creaked beneath me! A soft step on rotting wood! I jumped startled, scared, and turned, expecting to see-God knows what! Then…

— V.C. Andrews

Well, possibly," I said, feeling my lips twitch again. "But maybe first you would tell us why you chose to manifest yourself…

— Katie MacAlister

I'm so disappointed, Ichigo, so very disappointed. Sadly, your sword exhibits only fear. When you counter, it's because you fear being killed.…

— Tite Kubo

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

— Walter Benjamin

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

— Charles Hermite

“Your fright is in your lies but your delight is in your ties, So better get together and fight for the right.”

— Aram Seriteratai

The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.

— Meredith Hall

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

— Henry Rollins

You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.

— Brian Henson

“Dreaming is a dangerous business, but it never hurts anyone, it's their fright does.”

— Anonymous

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

— Barry Humphries