Lesley Nicol Quotes

I can't cook to save my life. I'm a disaster.

It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before.

You win a race, the next race it's a question mark. Are you still the best or not? That's what is funny. But that's what is interesting. And that's what is challenging. You have to prove yourself every time.

Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.

Insecurity is a waste of time.

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.

I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen... I don't think I have the patience for cooking.

I'm never happy with my performance.

A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.

Cooking is a dangerous thing for me. I'm pretty inept in the kitchen.

As a self-proclaimed cooking disaster, I try to makes things that I think I can easily master.

We're only human and when things aren't going well the confidence does go a little bit.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

One of the biggest things I struggle with is people's opinions. As much as I would like to say that I don't care, I see those comments. And sometimes it affects you more than others, or may completely change your mood.

Failure affects me hard.