Edith Evans Quotes

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

I think a lot of acting is having the confidence to be open enough to try things and not be afraid of falling on your face and looking like a fool.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

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.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

For me, I love auditioning.

This is what I believe about performing: There is no reason to be on stage - there is no reason to be there - if you're not going to put all your baggage somewhere else and just be honest. Whatever you're doing - screw it up, do great - just be there, and be honest. That's the most important thing.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

I've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading.

I'm always a different person when I get up and perform because then I don't have to be nervous. I don't have to be myself.

I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.

I trust my directors to see me through, for I don't consider myself as a natural actor - or a good one at that.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

Self-awareness is a character trait that's horrible to have if you're a performer. I think that a lot of these performers that we see get up on stage and play music, there's a sense of them truly not caring how they're coming across. They are just themselves. I look up to a lot of people who are like that.

I find it easy to be myself as an actor.

There are some beautiful things about people like Katy Perry, who are bold enough to go up on a pink cotton-candy cloud, with a guitar, in a tutu, and sing all by herself.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.