Kane Quotes

When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.

I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

Because I've got an AFI award, I feel there is a certain expectation when I walk into a room, you know, that 'That Deb Mailman must know something!' But I'm just as nervous with every experience. I still doubt whether or not I can pull something off. I still think, 'When is the review going to come along that says Deb Mailman's not very good?'

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

It's really hard for me to be around people I admire.

I seriously suck at auditions.

The first thing that was intimidating was when I started rehearsing to play Riff in the London company. That first day of rehearsal, I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm never going to learn this. I'm too slow.'

It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot.

I get nervous before every shoot. I'm really jealous of the people that can just rest on their laurels and say, 'I'm good; this is it.'