Duncan Jones Quotes

The honest truth is - and I have felt this way forever - is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any director.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.

I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

I always wanted to be a Broadway girl. But once I got Tony-nominated, it really messed with me, because it was like, yes, I'm getting this affirmation that you're right where you're supposed to be, but there was still this voice saying, 'You're not good enough.'

The biggest enemy of any actor is fear.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.