Eliza Scanlen Quotes

I loved being on set when I was younger.

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

I love being on set.

I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

But that was my very first time on a set and they said, you know, you have to stand on a mark. That little piece of tape that you stand on is called a mark. I kept correcting them and telling them that my name was Michael and not Mark. They said, 'No, no honey.' I was a little green.

I think our first scene was us arguing, and nobody wants to argue with Angela Bassett, but the thing about it was that all of the nerves I had going into it were immediately kind of quelled as soon as I got to the set. Becasue she's not Angela Bassett, she's just Angela Bassett.

Being on set is the thing I love the most, and a lot of the things that come alongside acting and entertainment are the things I despise, to be quite honest.

I am an actor and mouldable enough to do films like '2 States,' 'Gunday,' and 'Finding Fanny.'

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

When I did a scene with Dharam sir for the first time, I actually cried!

Being on set is just a unique and surreal experience, and it's one I always dreamed about having. And then I had it.

When I walk onto a film set, I become frightened and nervous. There's all this equipment, all these people, and most of them do things you don't know how to do. I didn't come from a film background.

I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!'

Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'

When someone says 'Action,' you just get on with it and hope that that is translated onto the screen for other people to see. All you can ever do is work as hard as you can on it and make sure you're doing your job.

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.

Even though I was playing myself on 'NCIS,' it was so cool to see how everything works behind a camera.

My first time on the treadmill, I was nervous.