Kirk Douglas

God bless Dad, he came to every one of my shows. I was bad, and I had horrible stage fright. My dad was so relieved - he'd say, 'You were terrible; this kid is not going to be an actor.' Finally, I did a play and he said, 'Son - you were really good.

American Actor

Laura Donnelly

Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!

Irish Actress

Rivers Cuomo

I'm just living each day, and I'm better equipped to do so. I mean, I used to be totally afraid, I used to have, like, permanent stage fright. But now I'm trying to have fun. I'm trying to bring as much happiness to as many people as possible.

American Musician

Gregg Allman

Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.

Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

American Clergyman

Nina Tassler

Throughout my career, the pounding in my heart, the fright, has been ever-present, but I never turned back. Fear can be a highly motivational part of the journey.

American Businesswoman

Sam Neill

If you're making a horror film, it's very important that you have lots of quiet, suspensey, don't-know-what's-happening stuff before you get the big fright.

Irish Actor

Taylor Swift

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

American Singer

Andrea Bocelli

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

Italian Musician

Alan Rickman

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

British Actor

'Fright' often refers to a quick, unexpected feeling of fear.

Sudden Fear

People might physically react to fright with actions like screaming or jumping.

Physical Reaction

'Fright' is used to describe something scary or the feeling it causes.

Cause of Fear

You can 'give someone a fright' by surprising or scaring them.

To Scare Someone

'Fright' can be used to describe something in a bad state, not just fear.

Not Always Literal

Using 'fright' can express disapproval of someone’s appearance or something’s condition.

Negative Description

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Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...

 creeping her way forward unfortunately for us we're gonna have a lot of bush in our way as she goes round it and I can't move any further than what I am now because that scrub you might just get a fright and run hit scrub here at the end of the day like I said knows something's up and know something's going on so we want to try and give it everybody the

Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...

 generally all right here in the summer months as you would expect and so I didn't find any but the devil phone name becomes comes from the thorn itself like I said it's got the two little horns on it and I laugh at the warthogs because they feed off that area and then every now and then you'll see them kind of get a fright and it's normally because they

See Elephants at Their...

 passages this or add up to the end of the beak in the mud and that it's a really nice depth and also enables them to preen a little bit easier as you can see the long beak like that helps you just scratch further back is it some birds fly by and the picture and if you saw that but the snap got a bit of a fright you know this is for me the first

Double the Lion Prides –...

 experiences I had that were very symbolic of the vast difference between the nomadic and the cemetery way of life and there was one occasion when I arrived in a village there was a very nice family who invited me in and he led the horses towards the barn and as they approached that the horses pulled back in fright they wouldn't go past the

Tim Cope: On the Trail...

 has had millions of years more practice than you. Just before you go on stage, it's time to fight dirty and trick your brain. Stretch your arms up and breath deeply. This makes your hypothalamus trigger a relaxation response. Stage fright usually hits hardest right before a presentation, so take that last minute to stretch and breathe.

The science of stage...

 What is wrong with our cities today? Well, for example, if we tell any three-year-old child who is barely learning to speak in any city in the world today, "Watch out, a car," the child will jump in fright, and with a very good reason, because there are

Enrique Peñalosa: Why...

 Or the stage fright that I have to this very day. What we need to understand is that failing at gender can and should be a positive, generative process. The mistakes we make with gender can only help us grow

A playful exploration of...

 but like I said even with pilo ear X you know here's another guy even with pilo erection it is not just these guys that do it we do it too when you get a bit of a fright sore you feel