Nina Arianda Quotes

I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

I lack confidence as an actor.

I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill of holding pages in my hand and acting with pages in my hand. I find that every time I have to look at the page it takes me completely out of the scene.

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

If I could go back to my first year of acting school, I'd probably say: 'Relax. Stop taking yourself so seriously.'

I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

I'm not a natural born performer.

It took many years of acting classes to get even remotely comfortable, but that's OK. It helped me so much on a personal level, not to mention professionally.

Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.

People might not believe me if I say I get nervous, but I tend to practice constantly to show a balanced performance.

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.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

I felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

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.