Quotes About Self-doubt

I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

I don't feel qualified to talk about my work.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.