Debby Ryan Quotes

To be honest, I am scared of acting, and moreover, I want to be perfect on the musical stage first.

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

Being in an acting class, you always feel like, you know, you're insecure, a lot of ways, when the teacher is commenting on your performance.

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

I'm not a good actor.

I am a terrible actor.

After every screen test, my family would ask how it went, but I would just say that I didn't know.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.

I lack confidence as an actor.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.

I never feel like I have anything. People can tell me a thousand times, 'You're the guy, you're the guy,' and I'm just like, 'We'll see when I'm on the set.'

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

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

Acting scares me.

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?

When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.

I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.