Johnny Simmons Quotes

I lack confidence as an actor.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

I always felt like acting was something I could just do if I wanted, which was wrong.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.

I had a crisis of confidence and ran away from being a standup for a while.

I feel a bit scared at times as I feel if I am not convinced about the scene, the audiences won't be either, so I have to give my best.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

I never had trouble within the audition room. That is a room that I control. So while I certainly experienced versions of what Titus Andromedon was going through, I never experienced the self-doubt.

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.