Kelly Macdonald Quotes

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we're in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.

I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.

If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

I hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.

By the way, I have had zero press training.

I didn't have any media training - I didn't have anybody but myself.

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

When it comes to me, I know what I can do and can't do.

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.