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In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile vomited all over the stage. It was horrible.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

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!