Vic Mensa Quotes

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

I have fear, always, on the set. Insecurity to the point where the first week I always think I could be fired. I think that's a fear most actors have.

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

I'm always so sick of myself after a show.

I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

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

An 'OMG' of mine would probably be speaking on stage and performing in front of thousands of people!

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.