Ellar Coltrane Quotes

I think I have a certain awkwardness, and I don't know how that works on screen.

I don't like watching myself in the movies because I don't like being aware of the product. I like the process. I enjoy that.

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

I never like seeing myself on screen.

I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.

Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

I find it weird to use my own voice on TV.

Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.

Performing in front of the camera is a different thing, and shooting a whole film is another.

I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.

It took me a while to get used to watching myself on TV.

I hate watching myself on camera. I guess a lot of people feel that way, though.

I am one of the people who just doesn't enjoy watching myself. I wish I could! I've seen 'Deadpool' three times; the third time, it was enjoyable for me.

When I am sitting in a movie theater with my girlfriends or boyfriend, I think how cool would it be to watch a movie with me in it.

I'm not a fan of seeing myself on TV.

When I see myself on screen, I don't even feel like it's me - it's like it's a completely different person.

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.