When you go on the stage before thousands of people you can be excited and nervous but it's not fear.
I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.
If you have stage fright it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then when I get on stage the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.
Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.
The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.
Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous making a bad impression. For me it's like a kind of fever.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.