Quotes About Impostor syndrome

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

feel like a lousy impostor. The only decent thing about me is that I have loved certain people in my life.

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.

My whole life, I always thought that I was the only impostor. That everyone else was certain they were real in some way that I could never understand. But what if they're all just faking too? Maybe none of us know who we really are.

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

Do you ever have the feeling that everybody's making everything up, all the time?

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

I always hope people will like me, and I'm always afraid they will think I'm a fraud. I try harder than perhaps I should to make people like me, then it backfires. They think I'm a buffoon.

The sense of being an impostor (what teacher has not felt it at times?) was heavy upon her.

Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

Maybe only my fraudulence was fraudulent.

Capgras delusion is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member (or pet) has been replaced by an identical impostor.

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.

As a therapist, I've worked with many high-achieving people who don't feel worthy of their success. Whether it was a recent college graduate who had landed a high-paying job or a mature adult who had just received another promotion, all of these people suffer from impostor syndrome.

Deep down, all directors feel like frauds - because it's built into the nature of the job. You're the jack of all trades and the master of none. The cameraman knows the camera, the sound man knows the sound equipment - and you? You can't do anything: You can't do the acting, you can't dress the set, you don't record the sound or shoot the images.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

I'm a fake intellectual.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

A loon thought he was Frank Sinatra and every time Frank came on TV or radio the loon would go mad, impostor!

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.