Duncan Jones Quotes

Putting your work out there is scary!

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

I'm a nervous sharer. I'm nervous to share things in their unfinished state just because, I mean, it's kind of embarrassing. You know what it could be, but you can't explain what it's going to be.

I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

I have had the auditioning process go on for two weeks or three weeks. I am always incredibly anxious. The audition and the wait is definitely the hardest part for me.

Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

Yes, I was on the cover of 'Vogue,' but girls on the cover of 'Vogue' are the most scared of rejection. Models are the most insecure of them all. Actually, actors and actresses are, and then musicians, and then models!

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

Countries are like adolescent entering a dance ... they're sure everybody is thinking about nothing but their inadequacies.

When people have recently asked me my profession, I have not dared to reply.

I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

There were so many nerves with putting out new music.