Michelle Rodriguez Quotes

I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't have that problem.

I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.

I auditioned for 'Jake in Progress,' and I was nervous because I had a big crush on John Stamos. I was totally thrown off and couldn't remember my lines.

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

Being on stage a lot is quite physical.

I've never liked rehearsing too much.

I don't like rehearsing.

It's hard to be on TV, it's really hard.

I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.

If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

Messing up lines is always embarrassing for me.

The toughest thing for me is doing on-camera stuff as a comedian.

It is important for an actor to learn how to face a live audience.

I always play with character.

I throw up before every show. I'm thinking about just making it part of the act.

It's hard to act in front of a lot of people.

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

Often people have to wake me up from a nap to tell me to go on stage.

I can't say I'm confident in my abilities as an actor.

Giving auditions is a great exercise. They will provide you with a script, and you prepare in 10 minutes. And you perform in front of 100 other people.

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.

Some people just want to make up the funny things and play pretend.

You'll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone like me, I came from the theater, and I don't like putting anything up in front of anybody until it's really, really ready, so it can be very frustrating.