Kelly Reilly Quotes

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

Don't be scared of what people will say.

No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

I never had the chutzpah to just come to L.A. and make it. I didn't have that confidence. I'm always surprised when I get a job.

I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I'd put it off until then because I didn't feel I was ready to handle the rejections.

I'll keep doing the things I don't know if I'm good enough to do.

Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?'

I was a little careful when I first started off. A lot of times, for example, I thought, 'Oh, I can't pull that song off.' I should have just done it.

I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.

I doubt myself a lot but go forward at full throttle anyway.

The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly.

My directors are always more confident about me doing a role than I am.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

I think my lesson is to back yourself once you've been given a job. Far too often, I've been given a job and then doubted why I'm there.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

There have been people in my life who have told me I have to put myself out there more. But it's so hard for me to do that.

I've definitely learned that if you really want something, just go for it, no matter how much it scares you.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'