Charlie Chaplin Quotes

The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

Being an actress and a singer, you get more 'nos' than you get 'yes.' You get more rejection than you do anything else.

It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

A little secret about actors is that we never think we do a great job in auditions. We kind of just go in and do our work and leave sort of hoping for the best. It's an interesting dynamic - acting is such an interesting job. You never quite know how well you do.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry.

I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.

I wish I knew that when I go in for an audition and I don't get the part, it actually doesn't have to do with me on a personal level.

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

I don't believe in auditioning. I'm a bad auditioner. I don't like it.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

I always wanted to be a Broadway girl. But once I got Tony-nominated, it really messed with me, because it was like, yes, I'm getting this affirmation that you're right where you're supposed to be, but there was still this voice saying, 'You're not good enough.'

I've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading.

I remember having a conversation with my sister, saying, 'What if I don't make it? What if I'm still waiting tables when I'm 35?' I was just at the end of my rope. But I've been at the end of that rope several times.

The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.

I seriously suck at auditions.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.