Song Hye-kyo Quotes

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

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

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

I lack confidence as an actor.

Every audition is different, but I get incredibly nervous and insecure and worked up for however long I have to prep - that's when I get to spin. But you're not allowed to spin once you enter the room. Doubt really can't enter the room when you're auditioning - unless it's part of the character.

Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.

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

I'm not a very good actor.

I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.

Being in an acting class, you always feel like, you know, you're insecure, a lot of ways, when the teacher is commenting on your performance.

I'm not a good actor.

I am a terrible actor.

One of the reasons that I needed to become an actor was that I didn't have any self-confidence.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

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.

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

I felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

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

The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag. I was wild and full of unharnessed energy, but I was around all these seasoned performers like Rita Cullis. It was as if they were all in slow motion.

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.