Matt Hardy Quotes

You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level.

Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

I think doing dramas kind of wears on you. It's just intense.

Network cable reads are always kind of stressful because it's the first time everyone's read through it out loud.

When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.

For me, the audition is always the hardest part of the whole process. Once you get on set, once you're in costume, you're with the director, it's so much easier to get in the headspace.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

I just was never into performing. It's just hard work. It's hard work.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

You should know that there are heroes here who are unduly worried about each role they portray.

It's not so much that I don't enjoy playing live - that's one of the best parts of playing music - it's that it's nerve-racking with 300, 500 people watching.

Theatre is for you if you truly want to act and test yourself. There is no room for error as you are performing in front of a live audience.

I have fear of the audience and I am responsible for the scenes involving me, be it as a comedian or hero.

There's no worse feeling than being in front of a guy with six-pack abs, muscles popping out of his shoulders, veins popping out of his arms, and you know he's swinging for the fences, in front of all your friends and family, and you can't breathe. You can't breathe no matter how much moves you know. You start to panic. You start to feel a drowning sensation. It's the worst feeling in the world.

Obviously, I can't break my mental block in the Octagon.

There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage and performing live theater. It's extremely demanding. I have to be in ballet class every day.

You look back at the Attitude Era and the level of entertainment we put in the ring now. The Attitude Era doesn't even come close. I'm not afraid to say that, either.

I definitely have a stage persona. I don't walk around scowling at people too often.

When I am playing the protagonist of the film, before the release, I feel a certain pressure because I become the face of the film, then, and I have a major responsibility.

I do get nervous and excited whenever I do a film.