Quotes About Self-doubt

Sometimes you can doubt your own abilities to do certain things. We get nervous, we get stuck, or we're not sure if we can live up to what we want to do.

I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project, and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.

If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you run the risk of mistakenly believing yourself to not be a good student.

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

I'm kind of stupid.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.

Can I be a leading man? I don't believe myself to be; I don't think that I am, but I'm in this place as a performer where I think about how to make things smaller, more subtle.

I hate the term black sheep, but I just felt like I wasn't keeping up. It was a subtle pressure I put on myself.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

Through the doors of perception Down the corridors of uncertainty Into the room of self doubt Opens the window of opportunity.

I hate prophesies! All they're good for is an extra club to beat yourself up with after the fact.

You can't rid of yourself suspicion that easily; once it appears it exists independently; and then it takes over, and the person has no control over it.

Trying to live up to what everyone else thinks and wants for you is a recipe for perpetual anxiety, self-doubt, and a generally unhappy life.