James Marsden Quotes

That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?

I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.

As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away.

I am insecure about tomorrow. Will I get another job? Will it be appreciated? I will pursue acting for as long as I have a face and body that is acceptable to the people, but I still worry that if I don't do better tomorrow, it will all go away.

I've always been very shy at auditioning; I'm not so great at it.

I was afraid that if I said, 'Yes, I'm an actor,' what would happen if I was bad at it?

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

I think most actors will say they always feel like they'll never work again.

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

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

I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.'

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

There've been times where, like when I auditioned for 'Akeelah,' I think in the first audition I was a little bit afraid because it was, you know, I had seen girls in there that I had seen on TV before, and I was like, 'Man, I might as well just walk out of here now because I'm just a newcomer,' and this and that.

I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.