Clairo Quotes

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

I really do not like auditioning... it's hard because you never know what you're going to walk into in a room.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.

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

When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.

One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I don't know anything.' The only thing I'd ever technically studied was filmmaking.

I was thrust into the spotlight and didn't really know what I was doing. The opportunity was amazing but I wasn't ready for any of it.

When I do the Led Zeppelin Experience I feel sort of responsible and it's a more nerve-wracking gig.

You'll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone like me, I came from the theater, and I don't like putting anything up in front of anybody until it's really, really ready, so it can be very frustrating.

You see a lot of guys who are told they will be the number one contender if they win the fight in front of them. They have fought a couple of really tough guys to get there, but when the chance is presented to them, something happens in some shape or form, and they aren't able to take it. They end up losing. That was the biggest fear for me.

I used to get the most anxiety before shows because I really was never prepared.

I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.

I do a little improv in my shows. Kind of like our movie, I'll do beats and ideas of dialogue, but I think there's less pressure because it's a live show. If you mess up, the audience laughs because we don't really know what we're doing. But as far as shooting, that was very scary, trying to make a point and drive the film. It definitely helped improvising.

Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.

If I'm playing music in front of people, I'll lose days to nerves like really wasted days of just like being terrified. And then when I get out there, generally speaking, I enjoy it very much. But it seems to be I have to accept the fact that that's just part of the deal for me. And I can't just run on and do it.

The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn't have a problem with either one - but somehow I didn't equate either one of them to the academic world.