Audience Quote by Steve Marriott

The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate…

— Diane Lane

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I…

— Elvis Presley

I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.

— Sharon Van Etten

When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to…

— Yoko Ono

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

— Sydney Pollack

When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was…

— Hugh Laurie

Some people have a fear of being on stage. I have a fear of coming off it.

— Noel Fielding

I was not naturally meant to be on stage. I hated being in the spotlight; I was scared.

— Shania Twain

The stage is like an addiction. Since singing and dancing had been my dreams all this time, I fall even more into those charms…

— Minzy

Figure out a way to get back onstage because once you do it a few times you'll get over it. Unless it's like a…

— Ari Shaffir

Once on stage, I was thinking of something else, and I forgot my line. I became so frightened. The girl I was playing with…

— Maria Karnilova

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

— Dan Mintz