Chris Hemsworth Quotes

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

Ordinarily during the stage of your life when you're going through your adolescence and you're completely awkward and uncomfortable, the rest of the world isn't watching you with bated breath. It's different when you're an actor and you choose to work your way through that period because it only makes it worse.

Standing by myself, just having everybody looking at me the entire time, is not my idea of a good time.

I really don't enjoy watching myself perform. That's why I usually don't go to see my movies.

Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one's there; that's kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.

It's a little daunting to know you're going to take off your clothes and 16 million people are going to see it. It's not a normal day at the office.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Being a background singer is one thing, but being on stage as the star is something else again. When you walk out there with all those people staring at you, it's like you're naked to the world. And I hate being criticized.

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.

It's hard work to think away all those 200 people or 40 people, whatever the crew is, that are around behind the camera. To also think about, 'Whatever I'm doing now is going to be seen by a million people,' it doesn't really help my performance.

Being an actor is just kind of embarrassing.

Watching films I'm in is always a bit odd, especially when I'm watching them for the first time with other people. It's hard not to see my faults.

I don't want to embarrass myself on TV!

I'm not really the type of person that can sit and watch my own performances.

I sweat on stage a lot.

I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.