Tavi Gevinson Quotes

I don't think I can call myself an actress yet. I just don't think my skill level is that high. I hope that with every job it gets better. But until I'm good, I can say I'm trying to be an actor, but I don't think I've completely made it.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.

I hope I have quite a few great roles to come.

I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that's really not true for acting.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

As I got older, I would study privately with some coaches. Then I found Lee Strasberg, which I loved.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

I didn't act professionally before going to drama school. I don't know if I had the confidence. I didn't think I'd get in when I first auditioned for drama school, and then I did.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

I never wanted to be an actress, really. I sort of caught the bug fairly late. So many people are so intrigued with the glamour and celebrity of acting, and a lot of actors start acting when they are 9 or 10 years old - so young. I started when I was about 24.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.