Kristen Stewart Quotes

I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.

All actors think every job will be their last.

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.

The stressful thing about being an actor is, like, you have to kind of audition again and again and again, you know? You go in one time, and you go in again for a director and then again for producers and then again and again and again.

I'm an actress. To be honest, it's a very awkward business. It's one of those things where it's almost like a first date. There's a way you want to come across. You want to show your goods. The truth starts to slip out sometimes.

Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.

I'm nervous before every day of work, almost. Even after six years of 'Breaking Bad.'

It's hard work to think away all those 200 people or 40 people, whatever the crew is, that are around behind the camera. To also think about, 'Whatever I'm doing now is going to be seen by a million people,' it doesn't really help my performance.

When you audition for something, and you book it, you think, 'Okay, well, I got the job, and now I actually have to show up on set and do it.' So, you show up on set, and you don't know, 'Am I going to get swallowed up by these people?'

The night before a show, I don't sleep. Really. I've been doing this for 30 years, and the night before a show, I still don't sleep.

I hate auditioning so much.

Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

It's so hard going into a performance that you've worked all week for and put so much time and effort into and when a silly little simple mistake that's never happened before happens, it can be really discouraging.

I'm normally a player that plays well under the TV lights, the cameras and everything, I normally do produce quite well.

The pressure was huge going into London, definitely.

I feel a bit scared at times as I feel if I am not convinced about the scene, the audiences won't be either, so I have to give my best.

If you can't motivate yourself to get up and play in front of 30,000-40,000 people, then you're not in the right job.

Sometimes, musicians worry too much about how beautifully they are playing.

We know what it's like to audition as kids and how nerve-racking it is.

For me, the audition is always the hardest part of the whole process. Once you get on set, once you're in costume, you're with the director, it's so much easier to get in the headspace.

Performing live is difficult. But nobody's forcing us to do it.

Every field has its pressures and stress factors.

It's hard; this business of acting is hard.