Eddie Redmayne Quotes

I lack confidence as an actor.

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance.

People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,' it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

Sometimes I'm on a TV set, and I can't feel what I'm supposed to feel as that character because I've not worked my way up to that point. I think there's a bit more insecurity on a set - you've got to blag it, or you've got to do what you've been paid a lot of money to do in a very short space of time.

You just want to get it right so badly, so it's stressful when it comes to those vulnerable, dramatic scenes.

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.

I had a chance to get used to the lights and the camera without all that pressure to... emote.

There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.

Doing 'Mamma Mia' was scary full stop, so playing a young Colin Firth was even more intimidating. I just had to keep reminding myself that I was playing Harry and not Colin Firth, which psychologically felt better.

Believe it or not, I always found intimate scenes hard to do.

I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.

I felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.

Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.