Brian J. Smith Quotes

When I first started acting, I was genuinely questioning whether or not I should be doing this.

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.

I decided to take a stab at acting. I entered the American Academy of Dramatic Art, where one teacher told me I'd never make it - I was too tall.

I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.

It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's also confidence - you have to be confident in order to try things - and they fight each other all the time.

I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.

I am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

No, I'm never confident with what I do, particularly playing and singing!

To be honest, I am scared of acting, and moreover, I want to be perfect on the musical stage first.

Initially, I resisted going into acting. You want to have your own identity, and I thought about doing other things, but that didn't last very long.

Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.

I was afraid that if I said, 'Yes, I'm an actor,' what would happen if I was bad at it?

When I was 14 and went on the stage for the first time, it stimulated me so much that I was convinced that I didn't want to do anything else.

I was on 'AGT,' and I was like, 'Well, face it Darci, you are just going to probably get out on the first live round.'

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

I'm not the kind of person who ever thought, 'Oh, a one-woman show - bring it on!'

When the butterflies in my stomach, when those leave, then I know it's probably time to retire.

You'd think that my acting in 'Lost Angels' would have been the reason why I gave up on it. But yeah, I'm just not that good at it. Auditioning is super weird, and I'm bad at it.

I'll die on the stage, man.

I had this notion that maybe I wanted to be an actor... I thought it might be a neat career. I thought if I was going to try that, I should shoot for the best, and I auditioned for Julliard.

Somehow, I don't see myself doing a lead role.

After every screen test, my family would ask how it went, but I would just say that I didn't know.

I really didn't think anything would come out of doing stand-up.