Danielle Panabaker Quotes

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

Believe it or not, I always found intimate scenes hard to do.

I lack confidence as an actor.

I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment.

I have a really hard time watching my sister act in anything but especially anything where it's a strong emotion. Whether she's crying or she's angry or she's - whatever emotion she's feeling I actually think that she's feeling it and I want to hug her and make it all better.

I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.

While I'm acting, I'm a professional, and then I don't break into cold sweat for whatsoever reason.

I had a chance to get used to the lights and the camera without all that pressure to... emote.

It is very difficult for me to accept the fact that I am acting in front of the camera.

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.

I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

I am so used to being up on stage and talking to my fans that it's strange to be on stage and be someone else. I can't look at the audience during 'In the Heights' or I will start talking to them.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.