Jacques Derrida Quotes

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

Most people stop learning out of fear. They are afraid they cannot learn.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

I had to act with a wolf, which made me very uncomfortable! It still does. I think about it all the time!

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

I get nervous even guesting on other people's shows.

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

I'm scared of audiences.

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.

The bigger the crowds get, the more nervous I get. I actually am very comfortable with a half-filled room of people who are slightly disinterested and are irritated at a Barnes & Noble.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.