Megan Fox Quotes

You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

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

I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.

When we are filming, it often feels like we're flying blind. As an actor, you have no idea if your choices are right or if they work. Some scenes feel like a complete Hail Mary. Imagine you're blindfolded and cook a massive Thanksgiving feast with only new recipes - without getting to taste any of them along the way.

You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.

Boys on set drives me a little bit loopy.

I learnt to relax a little more and enjoy the process, which is something I didn't do in my first movie - understandably, I guess.

I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

Acting is fun, but directing is very stressful.

Things can move so fast that you don't have time to catch your breath or think about the next move.

I've made mistakes, usually when I felt backed against a wall or faced enormous pressure. I'm human and flawed.

I had to prepare hard for number four because that's not where I batted all my life.

Every choice you make has higher stakes - or that's how it feels.

It's hard when you have to play a way you're not really used to and you feel like you can do more than just that.

We talk about that a lot: how, when you're under pressure, it brings out the best and the worst in people.

When you are in the big competition for the first time, you grow, and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.

Even when you are there on top, you feel the same nerves.

University was a shock to the system. At times, I really thought I couldn't do it. It's the same with 'Strictly.' I'm completely out of my comfort zone.

Bye weeks are nerve‑wracking.

If you're in big-time situations all the time - like for me, high school was big-time situations, college, big time situations - you adapt.

You can sit and imagine what it is like to go into a hostile stadium, or what it's like to play for the AFC championship, but you never know until you do it.