Bill Hader Quotes

I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.

'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'

I've gotten a little bit pompous. When I get out in public, I really notice myself looking at my reflections as a I walk though. New York is not a great place for me.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we're in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'