Emma Caulfield Quotes

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.

I think threat of change is pretty potent. In humans, blood pressure doesn't go up when people get laid off: it goes up when they first hear rumors that layoffs are coming at the end of the month.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.

I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.

I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

Producers get very jittery about things.