Paul Dano Quotes

The second I got on stage, it was like, 'Oh my God! I love this! I love this!'

When I'm not feeling something, I have a very hard time doing it.

Even though I've been doing it for so long, I still feel fresh. Even when I walk out on stage, I still feel pretty much the same as I've always felt.

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

I think nerves stop you from doing things. Make you stop and maybe make you withdraw. Then there's excitement where you can't wait to do it.

I act because I enjoy it. I give 200 per cent to it.

I had a crisis of confidence and ran away from being a standup for a while.

I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves.

There are times when I do feel very nervous when I start a film. And I feel very nervous before the release. I do get stuck in some scenes, but that's very natural and human. It happens to all the artistes in the world.

I don't ever feel like I'm being an actor.

I wanted, if anything else, Brodus Clay to be remembered as somebody who got you out of your seat and I think that'll be remembered so you've got to come 100% with that.

When I go out on the runway, I can feel the audience vibrate.

I'll die on the stage, man.

I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.

I'm always nervous. A classy comedian is full of self-doubt disguised with an air of false confidence. If there isn't self-doubt, you seem aggressive.

One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I don't know anything.' The only thing I'd ever technically studied was filmmaking.

Young people have such tremendous energy.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

Enthusiasm is always an interesting spectacle. When it expresses itself with an honest and artless eloquence, it is difficult to listen to it and not, in some degree, to catch the flame.

Every time you go up to the board, you get scared. It's more like adrenaline, though - you feel pumped and ready to go.