Barrett Wilbert Weed Quotes

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It's something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I'm able to do it.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

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

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.

Men display less self-doubt and lead with what seems always like a sense of force and direction. We are not as familiar with women leaders, and so we question their skills. As women, we always need to work harder to prove our competence.

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

Miss Goodblatt would call on me to read. She said I had a talent. So on a whim, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage.

If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.

Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

Over the years, I've had a slight ebbing and flowing of confidence in my non-comedic role abilities.

I started acting in junior high. I was in 'Guys and Dolls.' I was Stanley Kowalski. In my head, before coming to Hollywood, I thought, 'I can play anything.'

After I found that I had become an actor, slightly to my surprise, I did have some insecurity, and I did take some rather strange acting classes at a place called The Actor's Studio in London. I don't think they did me any good at all.