Michiel Huisman Quotes

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.

It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.

I do get nervous and excited whenever I do a film.

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

On stage, I am in the dark.

Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that.

I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.

Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

Auditioning is one of the most nerve-racking things you could ever do, but you have to be so focused that you don't tic.

I'm normally a player that plays well under the TV lights, the cameras and everything, I normally do produce quite well.

It's terrifying to play your favorite band's song in front of your favorite band.

I think all movie love scenes are hard because you can't truly be as intimate as you would be with anyone you're truly with, and everyone's watching you.

I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.

Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.

I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

Once I get out onstage, it's the same sort of basic production that it is anywhere else. But I might be a little bit aware that there might be people I know out there, who wondered where I was.

I get extremely nervous before performances. I pray and try to look at it as, 'I'll go out there and have fun,' but it's very nerve-wracking for me. I don't think that will ever change.

Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

I'm just terrible at auditions. I don't know how anyone does it.

Because I've got an AFI award, I feel there is a certain expectation when I walk into a room, you know, that 'That Deb Mailman must know something!' But I'm just as nervous with every experience. I still doubt whether or not I can pull something off. I still think, 'When is the review going to come along that says Deb Mailman's not very good?'