Chris Hemsworth Quotes

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

'Don't worry about it, and you'll be great,' said nobody, ever.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

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 feel the pressure of getting something right.

There is always that thing when you step up a level and you worry, am I going to be good enough? There's always doubt in my mind.

I feel like people expect a lot from me.

We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.'

Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

It is really hard for me to get out of my comfort zone.

The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.

I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.