Kabir Bedi Quotes

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 don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I'm like, 'Maybe that's not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.'

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.

Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work.

I'm as crippled with doubt as the next actor.

I'm an actor, so I'm never going to feel like I've done enough.

I don't know if I'm going to be any good at sevens.

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

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

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 doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep... I guess actors just never feel secure.

All actors think every job will be their last.

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 expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.