Sam Heughan Quotes

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

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

I trust my directors to see me through, for I don't consider myself as a natural actor - or a good one at that.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

The school plays needed kids that were big and bold and weren't afraid to be on stage, and I fit that bill, so I was expected to do it. And then I went to college, and the exact same thing happened.

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.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I'm - you know, I'm not a good actor.

The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.

I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.'

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.