Abyss Quote by Stephen Dillane

Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating.…

— Katharine Hepburn

There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every…

— Ben Kingsley

It's a performer's worst nightmare: to hurt yourself on stage and not be able to remove yourself from the stage.

— Shangela

I felt like a fake the whole time and it made me very, very nervous - which is why I have such great respect…

— Sherry Lansing

When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your…

— Sandra Bullock

I'm amazed how unable I am to deal with the demands that are made on me as an actor. Not the one I enjoy,…

— Charley Boorman

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

— Charles Saatchi

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're…

— Elia Kazan

Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons…

— Chris Sarandon

I think all actors should be made to feel somewhat uncomfortable. Because otherwise you're not learning anything or developing, and you're not pressing yourself…

— Adam Pearson

I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's…

— Peter Dinklage

I feel like in a lot of ways I've gotten kind of soft as an actor, not doing stage stuff. In terms of being…

— Paul Giamatti