Quotes About Self-doubt

I might be an idiot.

I knew people liked me on 'American Idol,' but I didn't think they'd care to come see me sing at my own show.

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?'

There are enough really good love songs and I don't even know if I could write one if I tried.

People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does.

I went through the process of trying to convince myself I was not ill.

About seven years ago, I was anchoring a BBC news program and somebody else was brought in to do it. I had that moment of thinking, 'My God, Im a complete failure. Ill never work again.'

I've been booed before. There have been times when I've wanted to boo myself. But a lot of ill feelings can be cured by winning.

I've always felt like, you know, there's this imaginary wall that we ourselves put up or others do by saying that we can't do something.

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

I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.

It is really hard for me to impress myself with the work that I do.

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.

You always think you're better than you are in the beginning.

I was young and playing against big players and big clubs. In the beginning, I was thinking they were better than me, and maybe I was a bit scared, also.

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

I worked at a shoe store on 86th Street called Orva, in the hosiery department because nobody went there. That's where they put me because I was too incapable of doing anything.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

After the first draft, I sat back and thought to myself, "where did that come from?" That thought was quickly followed by "what is wrong with you?

I've got an awful lot of unpublished stuff lying around, but at my age, it's hard to go to auditions and rehearsals and all the rest. Besides, you get frightened. You can stand success, but you're afraid of failure.

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

Though Mrs. Fontaine smiled, I couldn't help but wonder if she'd sized me up and found me lacking.