Namrata Shirodkar Quotes

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

Auditioning is the worst.

Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

The questions that loom can be intimidating. 'What kind of moves is she gonna make? What is she gonna do?' There is this pressure that you're supposed to keep impressing.

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.

It has gotten worse as I'm becoming more successful. My nerves. Just because there's a bit more pressure, and people are expecting a lot more from me.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

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

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.

There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.

Before every performance I feel nervous.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

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

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

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

I get nervous as hell when it's time for the songs to come out.

Uncertainty helps keep actors on edge.

High expectations are really intimidating.