Kodi Smit-McPhee Quotes

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.

I debuted in Bollywood without inhibitions, and I don't want to develop any fears now. Nothing is more detrimental to an actor than the lack of total surrender.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

I used to be afraid of looking at the audience.

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment.

I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.

When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.

I think fear is unavoidable and that, when recognized and embraced, it's something that can work for you - especially in the audition room.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

There's nothing about the stage to be afraid of; there's nothing about the cameras to be afraid of. You just have to be yourself.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.

What holds you back in comedy is fear.

I've always had a problem showing fear on a film.

I have been dancing for a really long time, but when I get on stage, I forget all about that!

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

I lack confidence as an actor.

We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!

When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the love of it. There's nothing I love more than playing live.

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.

I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.