Alex Pettyfer Quotes

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

If I'm the weak link or whatever, I guess that means I've got something to prove. I've always had something to prove.

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I like challenges.

I'll keep doing the things I don't know if I'm good enough to do.

When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.

The work I like to do is the work I'm most afraid of.

I have never feared failure.

Believe in yourself. Push to your highest limit.

I've always been a guy that, I don't know, just attacks pressure.