John Tiffany Quotes

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.'

After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

I think the first table read I ever did, my hand was vibrating the whole time.

But since I did my first film with Shammi Kapoor ji, he is my favourite. I was very shy to face the camera. In my first few shots with Shammi chacha, I was very nervous. He was very patient with me and guided me in every shot.

I do get nervous to act, it kind of depends on what it is really.

The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

I was never nervous directing. Not once. I'm more nervous acting. I'm far more nervous on set, before I say my lines, than I ever have been, as a director.

It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

I was afraid no one would laugh, and I wanted to pretend I wasn't noticing the audience. I didn't want the audience to get the idea I was telling a joke and waiting for a laugh.

Performance was a shock to me. The first time I remember feeling I could do it was during the making of my first video, 'Fun for Me.' I couldn't sleep the night before the shoot, I was so frightened. I had to play a ghost and a piece of merchandise in a shop window, and I had no idea whether I was going to be able to pull it off.

It's not like I'm nervous of people seeing what I can or can't do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.

I remember when I gave my first recital. I thought, 'Oh, my goodness, people are coming to hear me.' I didn't expect anyone to come, and then the whole hall filled up. Of course, it wasn't a big hall, and some of the people were my friends and family.

Going to a theatre and watching yourself on the big screen is a nightmare.

I think nerves are part and parcel of working as an actor. You can either work against them or you can embrace them, and I very much embrace them.

It's hard to act in front of a lot of people.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

My first show 'Kahe Naa Kahe' was such a big challenge for me.

At first, I wasn't really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

I am very shy on set. I don't talk much.

I remember the first couple of TV things I did, I was really nervous.

I think actually performing on stage when everyone's facing you and you're one person facing them, that is quite a lonely thing in a strange way. You have to be quite insular from everybody else, you've got thousands of people staring at you and you're just on your own.

My mom was like, 'You talk so much. You have too much energy. Why don't you just join the play or something?' It was a comedy, and I got laughs in rehearsal, but onstage, in front of a whole audience, I got a lot of laughs.

I have been a part of stage shows, but yes, I do get cold feet when I think that every move of mine will be under scrutiny!