Elias Koteas Quotes

Every job still feels like the first time.

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

You get butterflies when you see all the fans screaming.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

You do a play, or you go on set for the first day of filming: if you don't have nerves, and you don't have any kind of adrenalin pushing you forward, then something is wrong.

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

I'm still nervous before I start any episode. I never feel completely secure, and I love that.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

The first time I performed musically, I threw up.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

Auditioning is the worst.

When I won my way to the international science fair, I didn't want to embarrass myself. It was the first time I was going to be away from home, the first time taking an airplane. I went to the local library, checked out every single etiquette book, and I read those books like I was uncovering some sort of treasure.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I did the 'Tonight Show' once, and I choked up. I get intimidated.

It's so thrilling to be intimidated.

I haven't been really nervous about a gig in a long time.