Trevor Noah Quotes

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

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

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

Your nerves can get the better of you, especially when it's your first film.

There's no worse feeling than being in front of a guy with six-pack abs, muscles popping out of his shoulders, veins popping out of his arms, and you know he's swinging for the fences, in front of all your friends and family, and you can't breathe. You can't breathe no matter how much moves you know. You start to panic. You start to feel a drowning sensation. It's the worst feeling in the world.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.

When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.

I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!

Pressure makes me produce. Kills most guys. Mortifies 'em.

At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.

I hate Q&As. They make me feel awkward.

I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there's more people in the audience than I'm used to.

I was the kid in class who was afraid to get called on.

When I'm on set, I'm 100 percent comfortable, but at events and photo shoots, I'm beyond nervous.

I am very shy. It's the most stressful thing to be in the public eye.

Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.

When you start, you have no brain; you are a kid. It's fine. But then I started to be scared. I was scared of judgment - not as a dancer, but as a person - and I was really uncomfortable with people. And it lasted for a very long time.

I don't like the pressure of TV.