Laurie Holden Quotes

It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't.

Awww, I was so shy about watching my own work broadcast on TV.

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

Nudity... I have to say I will never do it again.

I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.

I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold!

I'm not some weirdo who wants to take off his shirt.

15 people in a room looking at you with no clothes on - that's a little weird.

There's no worse feeling than being in front of a guy with six-pack abs, muscles popping out of his shoulders, veins popping out of his arms, and you know he's swinging for the fences, in front of all your friends and family, and you can't breathe. You can't breathe no matter how much moves you know. You start to panic. You start to feel a drowning sensation. It's the worst feeling in the world.

Half of acting is you're very intimidated, overcoming your fears, letting yourself be vulnerable in front of people and that sort of stuff.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

Sometimes, at parties, people demand I tell a joke. It's like pointing a gun at my feet and telling me to dance.

I was recording my audiobook, and it's so weird. You write things, but then to have to say them out loud in front of people feels so different. So when I was recording my audiobook, I was telling an embarrassing story in front of, like, a room full of audio-tech people that I don't know, and I was like 'Oh my God, this is so cringe.'

I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would be like, 'Oh, God.' It would completely terrify me, even though I'm such a junkie for the show.

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.