Max Minghella Quotes

Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.

I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.

I think the first table read I ever did, my hand was vibrating the whole time.

So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.

Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

There were times at the start of it all when I would be standing, terrified, in front of the cameras and people I considered 'real' actors. I had no idea what was happening, what the guy with the clipboard did, or if people in the studio were looking at me because it was their job to look at me or because they thought I was making a mess of things.

I've dreamt lucidly about how my Broadway debut would go and what that would feel like, but I know that I can't be prepared for that.

I was very green when I started in WWE and felt very uncomfortable with talking.

I don't really like to audition, and that works against me. It's bad to be an actor and not like to audition.

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

I think nerves are part and parcel of working as an actor. You can either work against them or you can embrace them, and I very much embrace them.

When I first took up an acting assignment, I knew nothing about the industry or the responsibilities attached to the profession. I just went, played my part and that was that.

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.

To play anybody real and famous is very scary.

I remember the first couple of TV things I did, I was really nervous.