Quotes About Self-doubt

I have written a lot of musical theatre over my life - two Olivier Award-winning musicals - and I still don't think I'm ready to be the boss in the room.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.

The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.

It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

I don't think confidence has ever really been one of those things that came naturally for me. If people thought I was confident, it was really just the way I masked my insecurity, because I didn't want people to really get to know the real me.

A lot of people think I'm naturally confident. I am not naturally confident!

And one of the biggest things I still can't get over is that even when I'm doing something right, I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. I always have that feeling that it's not good enough. That I'm not good enough.

She worried that her best was behind her now.

Why? Why did Mother always love you more? Because she respected me. She saw in me the will to conquer my fears without doubting myself. You never had that.

Nicolas didn't want the couple there. It was petty of him and made him feel ashamed and even stupid that he wanted more time alone with Lara. He had always been so self-assured, but now he feared losing her, feared she would leave him—or stay with him because of the lifemate bond, but never find it in her heart to love him.

Dahlia felt the cabin was growing smaller with each introduction. Each man stood tall with wide shoulders and bulky muscles. She felt ridiculous standing near them.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

Theo looked over at Gabe's ex-girlfriend, considered the heels, the stockings, the makeup, the hair, the lines of her suit, her nose, her hips, and felt like he was looking at a sports car that he could not afford, would not know how to drive, and he could only envision himself entangled in the wreckage of, wrapped around a telephone pole.

Staring down at my trembling hands, I wonder many things.

Somedays you have to write even when you think you're putting out crap. You just need to tell yourself that you'll fix the problems later, and by then, they might not even be problems anymore. The challenge of writing a novel has always been to let loose with a beautifully flawed first draft, and to constantly fight belief you're chiseling words in stone each time you type.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it.

Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion?