Quotes About Self-doubt

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me.

I'll be worthless.

I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that I´ve come within talon distance of a man.

What if . . . What if I am stupid? Like people say?

What if . . . What if I am stupid? ...

He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.

I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing.

I normally feel relief that I didn't die onstage or forget all my lines. Then I start remembering that I have to do it again sometime, and it'll probably not go as well.

Sometimes, you need someone to believe in you when you don't believe in yourself.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

I think I'm a somewhat nervous bee who just wants to conform. Which, I guess, is common in bees.

You cannot deliver to your maximum if you're thinking 'if I do an error, it might close a door to somewhere' or whatever.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I worked extremely hard at my craft and at being a good songwriter, being a good guitar player, being a good organist, because I didn't think people would take me seriously.

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.

When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.

I am neither such a great songwriter or such a great singer that the world must hear my album. There's just no point to make.

I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.

I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.

I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet.