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.
Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
People die of fright and live of confidence.
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.
A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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.
I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.
Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of the koan, this one is not different from myself. I know this mountain because I am this mountain, I can feel it breathing at this moment, as its grass tops stray against the snows. If the snow leopard should leap from the rock above and manifest itself before me - S-A-A-O! - then in that moment of pure fright, out of my wits, I might truly perceive it, and be free.
Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.
And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT