Alicia Vikander Quotes

It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.

Even when you are there on top, you feel the same nerves.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.

I'll never feel like I've made it.

It feels like my hard work has paid off, but at the same time, I still have the impostor, you know, syndrome. I still feel like I'm going to wake up, and everybody's going to see me for the hack I am.

I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to do my routines and hoping I didn't mess it up when I was on the bar. When I came back, 10,000 people were at the airport and I thought, 'Why?' because, in my mind, I hadn't done anything different from what I used to do in my gym.

Don't feel bad if you never 'get famous.' Don't freak out if you have less than 300 Twitter followers.

I got a lot of notoriety early on. Much of my career I was just trying to prove I was as good as the world thought I was.

I still don't feel like I've made it. I can't imagine ever feeling like I've made it.

I arrived in London and I was terrified. I never wanted to be a celebrity - one minute I was in school and the next I was in London talking to people at a record company. If anything, I didn't feel in any way worthy.

To be honest, I already felt that I was going to win the gold medal, but with school being so hard I was kind of second-guessing myself. So, when I actually was told that I was going to be able to walk across the stage and be done with high school, it was such a relief.

It's hard when you win the title to not think, 'I'm here. Now what do I do?'

The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.

I never imagined that I would earn my way into anyone's rafters.