Fright Quotes

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

  Walter Benjamin

  Happiness, Being Happy, Fear

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.463, Harvard University Press

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

  Stevie Nicks

  Fear, Keys, Stage Performance

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

  Faith Hill

  Fear, Littles, Stage

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• 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.

  Brian Wilson

  Done, Four, Hell

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• Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

  Karl Marx

  World, Uniting, Communist Manifesto

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

  John Lydon

  Wicked, Rotten, Goes On

  The Daily Telegraph, January 6, 2008.

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• 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.

  Renee Fleming

  Mind, Difficult Times, Stage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.

  Eddie Bracken

  Fun, Fear, Heaven

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• Those 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.

  Thomas More

  Fear, Men, Use

  Thomas More (1737). “Utopia”, p.119

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• Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Fear, Moving, Home

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books

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

  Andrea Bocelli

  Character, America, Suffering

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• I have never known stage-fright at any time.

  Kate Smith

  Fear, Stage, Known

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

  Alan Rickman

  Lines, Forget You, Gremlins

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

  Ednita Nazario

  Fear, Stage, Stage Fright

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

  Henry Rollins

  Fear, Remember, Minutes

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• I have big, big stage fright.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Fear, Bigs, Stage

  Interview with Connie Chung, transcripts.cnn.com. December 25, 2002.

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• I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

  Ethel Merman

  Fear, People, Stage

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Sean Penn

  Fear, Stage, Stage Fright

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• At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Odd, Unpredictable

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation's Edge”, p.10, Spectra

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• I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Running, Caring, Thinking

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• 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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Next, Slaughterhouse 5

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

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• 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.

  Roseanne Barr

  Stars, Singing, Stuff

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• Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ordinary, Doe, Murder

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  John Lydon

  Suffering, Wicked, Goes On

  "John Lydon: 'I'm fat, I'm 50 and I'm back'" by Olga Craig, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 1, 2008.

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