Alison Moyet Quotes

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

I'm not really an actress.

You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.

I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.

Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.

Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.

As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It's a tough, embarrassing thing to do for a living when you're starting out, and you better not have any ego or pride, because that will be wiped away clean by utter devastation.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

While I'm acting, I'm a professional, and then I don't break into cold sweat for whatsoever reason.

I never had trouble within the audition room. That is a room that I control. So while I certainly experienced versions of what Titus Andromedon was going through, I never experienced the self-doubt.

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

I lack confidence as an actor.

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.