Sydney Pollack Quotes

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

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

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

I'm still nervous before I start any episode. I never feel completely secure, and I love that.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

On stage, I am in the dark.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

I used to get nervous just going to the stage door, seeing people waiting to talk to me. I was afraid of being caught out in some way or not being right.

I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

Sometimes I feel I have no idea what I'm doing as an actor. I just did a tape for the TV remake of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' and I think it could be the worst thing I've ever done.

I'm as crippled with doubt as the next actor.

I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.

I get nervous before every shoot. I'm really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, 'I'm good; this is it.'

I'm not comfortable as a lead singer. Maybe I could do it in the studio, but I wouldn't have the confidence to play shows.

There are times when I do feel very nervous when I start a film. And I feel very nervous before the release. I do get stuck in some scenes, but that's very natural and human. It happens to all the artistes in the world.

I don't know if I'm going to be any good at sevens.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.