Ken Stott Quotes

I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing.

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

Let's face it: I was never a very good actress.

I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work.

I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.

I lack confidence as an actor.

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

Something about theatre perhaps scared me.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

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

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.

I've never been onstage in my life.

I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.

On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

I'm nervous when taking part in any movie.

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.