Edward Norton Quotes

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

I lack confidence as an actor.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

Sometimes I feel I have no idea what I'm doing as an actor. I just did a tape for the TV remake of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' and I think it could be the worst thing I've ever done.

I always felt like a fraud.

I can't say I'm confident in my abilities as an actor.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.

I don't know how to drive a car. The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing.

As an actor, I don't know what I'm doing. I've never known what I was doing. I show up the first day, I'm scared, and I just hang out. It's like being in detention - you just wait for it to be over. Then gradually I start to figure out what's going on.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.