Kelly Reilly Quotes

Every job still feels like the first time.

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'

When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school.

Acting scares me.

People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

When you hear that you're going to be working with a first-time director, sometimes that can be a concern to people.

When something is new, it creates a new kind of fear.

The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

Sometimes when people give you suggestions they are kind of making you nervous, you wonder whether you are doing something wrong.

Some people are just weird when you're on a plane - it's the same during a renovation. It stresses them out.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.

That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

Performing was terrifying.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

When I watch films or tv that I've done, I get very restless and tend to not sit still.

With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.