Fear isn`t so difficult to understand. After all, weren`t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It`s just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.
- Alfred HitchcockWith stage fright you keep on doing it and eventually the fear goes away. If you stick around long enough you become very hard to intimidate. It is very difficult to make me nervous about working these days. There have been so many times when I thought I was finished, but it was not true - you just keep going. I am scared of sickness, pollution and crazy people but, work-wise, there is nothing to frighten me.
- Christopher WalkenI`ve never gotten over what they call stage fright. I go through it every show. I`m pretty concerned, I`m pretty much thinking about the show. I never get completely comfortable with it, and I don`t let the people around me get comfortable with it, in that I remind them that it`s a new crowd out there, it`s a new audience, and they haven`t seen us before. So it`s got to be like the first time we go on.
- Elvis PresleyI`ve never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
- Sean PennA little bit of stage fright, then I`m ready.
- Faith Hill(Washington, DC, May 17, 2007) We understand the fright that can come when you`re worried about a rocket landing on top of your home.
- George W. BushI can`t remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
- Henry RollinsIf you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
- Stevie NicksI`ve never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.
- Ethel MermanIt`s as though you have crossed Niagara on a tightrope 250 times and, on the 251st crossing---vertigo. You are convinced you can`t move across the stage without falling over. You go rigid from the knees down. You suddenly wonder, why am I doing this? I knew I`d got to get through a whole season, three spanking parts, and that if I ran away, I would never act on stage again. It was that knowledge that shocked me out of my illness. But I had a very bad time in the first weeks. - DJ, regarding his two-year spell of stage fright and subsequent return in 1982 to the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Derek JacobiIn those moments when I entered the stage, trembling with stage fright and excitement, under those spotlights, I felt that I`d found the one thing that I wanted to do in my life. Nothing could match that flow of adrenaline.
- Mira FurlanI have never known stage-fright at any time.
- Kate SmithIn film you make the most money and television is easiest because its stupid. But theater is the most rewarding because you can at least try to do something worthwhile. The thing about a movie is that you basically wait all day and it can get boring. But theater is exciting. You walk out on a stage opening night on Broadway and, wow, you freak out! Your stage fright which you thought you left behind roars up in your head.
- David Marshall GrantInconstancy is but a name to fright poor lovers from a better choice
- John RutterThose among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
- Andrew CortyTo be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
- Andrew Klenert