Kim Shattuck Quotes

I seriously suck at auditions.

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.

I always considered myself the world's worst actress.

I'm hugely negative, so if a joke doesn't land it takes me a long time to get over it. If something doesn't go well I go dark in my head. Basically I start thinking it should be illegal for me to be doing comedy.

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish.

I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.

As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.

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.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

No, I'm never confident with what I do, particularly playing and singing!

I'm pretty hard on myself when it comes to my voice, and certain notes I'm afraid to hit because I'm afraid I'm going to sound bad.

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'

I think what all actors share is that, somewhere down in your solar plexus, there's this fear that you're not going to be able to come up with the goods, that this is the one movie where you're going to look like a fool, and they should have cast someone else. And you feel ugly, and you've got three chins, and you've gained too much weight, and you're losing your hair, and there are so many better actors who could do this. But if you've got chops, what you realize is that everybody feels that way, so just show up and do the job.

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

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.