Carine Roitfeld Quotes

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

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

I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

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

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.

I never feel like I have anything. People can tell me a thousand times, 'You're the guy, you're the guy,' and I'm just like, 'We'll see when I'm on the set.'

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

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

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.

Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

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 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.

I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.

The hardest pill for me to swallow has been receiving recognition, getting dressed up, going to events. That's the part that has always terrified me. You can see dozens of photos where I have zero hair and makeup and I'm wearing my own jeans and T-shirt, because I was not that interested in that side of it.