Jonathan Groff Quotes

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

I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.

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

I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.

I really do not like auditioning... it's hard because you never know what you're going to walk into in a room.

Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

I'm nervous before every day of work, almost. Even after six years of 'Breaking Bad.'

I used to cry on the way to auditions.

Broadway is intimidating. Don't think it's not.

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.

I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London because you have all that time to think.

I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

You have that moment just before you go on - I've had it in every play - where you just kind of want to run away. There's a whole audience, and they are waiting outside, and you're like, 'Why am I doing this again? Why? Why?'

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.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

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.

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?'

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Live TV would terrify anybody.