Libba Bray Quotes

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I never really wanted to be a singer, because I was a super-shy kid. Singing made me feel awkward, and I was really insecure.

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

I'm awkward under the limelight.

We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.

Comedy kind of terrifies me. I feel pretty intimidated.

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 suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other people's clothes and pretending to be somebody else, which is completely crazy choice of profession. So, I don't enjoy public speaking and I have every sympathy for anyone who has to do it and doesn't enjoy it.

I've worked with Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks. I've worked with some really good directors: Woody Allen, Paul Schrader... My God, I've really worked with a lot of people. But I'm intimidated by them, and I'm always thinking, "Oh, my God, he's not going to like me, and I'm going to get fired."

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead.

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

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.