Gabriella Wilde Quotes

I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.

I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.

I am a different person in front of the camera; it comes as easy to me as breathing does.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a microphone and my guitar. You don't get as nervous walking into a room in front of 3 or 4 people and to do a scene or to walk on a set. You gain confidence.

I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.

For me, I love auditioning.

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.

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

As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

It's weird that I've ended up playing so many real live people, because I was never any good at impersonations at school.

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona - which is something I love about acting: you play a character, you leave and you get to be yourself again.

I feel real confidence in working on the stage.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.