Quotes About Self-doubt

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

My vocals are bad, I can't sing, hey man, I wouldn't ask you to do a drum roll if your arm was falling off.

Meetings had never been her strong suit. She felt like she was playing an away game whenever she sat down in a conference room. Her awareness of this got in the way and turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't.

Understand that in order for organized religion to succeed, it has to make people believe they need it. In order for people to put faith in something else, they must first lose faith in themselves. So the first task of organized religion is to make you lose faith in yourself. The second task is to make you see that it has the answers you do not. And the third and most important task is to make you accept its answers without question.

Do you have difficulty sleeping?" "Sometimes not. When I do it's bad, though. I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter.

I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough - just smart enough to have problems.

There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are.

FELIX. I can't stand it, Oscar. I hate me. Oh, boy, do I hate me. OSCAR. You don't hate you. You love you. You think no one has problems like you. FELIX. Don't give me that analyst jazz. I happen to know I hate my guts. OSCAR. Come on, Felix; I've never seen anyone so in love. FELIX. (Hurt) I thought you were my friend. OSCAR. That's why I can talk to you like this. Because I love you almost as much as you do.

Frankly the question came to this: what was the matter with her? Was there, without her knowing it, some peculiar lack in her? Absurd. But she began to have a feeling of discouragement and hopelessness. Why couldn't she be happy, content, somewhere Other people managed, somehow, to be. To put it plainly, didn't she know how? Was she incapable of it?

Why do I piss people off? What is wrong with me?

When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all.

Savannah sometimes sounded a lot like the little voice that had taken up residence in my head but never bothered paying rent, and right now it whispered that if I felt guilty, maybe I was doing something wrong.

At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful honesty, he sometimes believed he was a failure in all what was important

I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.

I had no delusions about myself. I couldn't act - I had never acted. So how could I be a movie star?

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

There was a time in my early 20s when I would leave a movie theater and just feel so alone and lonely afterwards. I just felt like my life was nothing like those characters up on the screen, so perfect all the time. Why didn't I talk like that? Why don't I look like that?

Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.

I don't feel I'm as good a mum as my mum was.

I've always been quite insecure. I had followed Mum and Dad into TV and yet in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't for me.

I was like, 'I'm only going to do musical theater for the rest of my life. I'm never going to do TV.' And whenever I'd get auditions for TV, I'd be like, 'Okay, whatever. I've got a lisp, so they're not going to take me.' And then I started doing this, and I guess it was my sister that got me into the acting thing.