Dan Amboyer Quotes

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

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.

If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.

I never like seeing myself on screen.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

I don't know any people that like watching themselves. I prefer not to.

'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'

I've never been a big fan of me, me, me.

When you're not playing, you always question yourself.

It's a very hard line to walk, and I certainly am nowhere near having cracked how to do that, but I try to focus on being a brave performer and not worrying about my lighting or whatever, even though, then, sometimes I see myself on screen, and I'm like, "Why did you wear that, look like that, whatever," but I'm also more accepting that is what it is. There's this battle always.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

When I see myself on screen, I don't even feel like it's me - it's like it's a completely different person.

I don't watch anything I'm in. I'm too critical.

I don't really think of myself as stupid - but then, who does?

Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it's always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'This, this, and this I need to improve.' That's how it is.

I'm going to tell you right now, no one is harder on me than me. The fact that fans sit there and boo me, I'm booing myself when I'm walking in.

It was a relief to get dropped which is sad in a way because you never want to miss a game. But I was not performing and mentally I got to a stage where I was not concentrating and did not want to be there. I was not enjoying walking out there and feeling like I didn't know where the next run was coming from.

I'm always mad when I throw an interception, but at the same time I don't care what anybody thinks.

You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.

Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.