Lacey Chabert Quotes

I don't really like to audition, and that works against me. It's bad to be an actor and not like to audition.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

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

As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.

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

I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day, I get tremendously neurotic making sure nothing is forced or fake.

You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, 'That's not your story.'

There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

The hardest thing about acting is all of the other things you have to think about besides performing... Your image, your team, networking - not to mention the mental strength you need to be able to stay unaffected by the rejection that every actor experiences.

There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.

We're being critiqued every day, whether you hear them critiquing you, or it's behind your back, whether it's the client, casting, friends, agents - you're constantly being judged, and you're constantly being denied!

There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.

I'm going to get criticized my whole career.

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

I feel like the criticism and bad stuff don't come unless I'm playing bad.

I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?' ... Lots of actors feel that way. What gives you strength is also your weakness - your raging insecurity.

And there are lots of moments when I think, ‘What am I doing as an actor? I can’t act!’