Marion Cotillard Quotes

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

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

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

I've always been very shy at auditioning; I'm not so great at it.

I was not happy with myself as a human being when I was very young - I was afraid of people; I was afraid of talking, I didn't know how to express myself other than by being on stage.

I lack confidence as an actor.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.

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.

When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.

I can't act!

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I'm not a natural born performer.

There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'

I am not a natural show-off. Some of the monster comedians are terrifyingly assured, and I don't have that, and that's held me back.

I was very shy about acting. I thought you had to be confident. I was confident with my friends, but I would never think of acting in front of anyone else.

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

I hate those people that get up and they're amazing. I think you just have to be kind of wasted to go and do it.

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

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.

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.

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