Christopher McCulloch Quotes

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

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

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

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

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

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

I can't stand watching myself on TV.

I'm not really the type of person that can sit and watch my own performances.

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

When I'm on set, I'm 100 percent comfortable, but at events and photo shoots, I'm beyond nervous.

I really don't enjoy watching myself perform. That's why I usually don't go to see my movies.

The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see that it's me, I find that disappointing.

Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'

I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

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

I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.

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!'