Javier Bardem Quotes

I can't act!

I lack confidence as an actor.

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.

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.

Sometimes I feel I have no idea what I'm doing as an actor. I just did a tape for the TV remake of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' and I think it could be the worst thing I've ever done.

I can't say I'm confident in my abilities as an actor.

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.

On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

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

Do I have any potential as an actor? I don't know. I'm still wondering. But acting has kind of taken over.