Quotes About Self-doubt

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.

I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable.

I never pictured myself being liked by anybody.

The idea of someone not liking me or not liking my movie was always easier to deal with than someone really liking it. I don't know why.

I don't mind people liking or not liking me. If you make something and then in the back of your mind you think it could have been a bit better, that can hurt a bit.

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

It's hard listening to myself.

I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you think you're not the kind of literary person who will write books that will sell. There was always a kind of defensiveness in me.

I always wanted to write about comics and I have written little things here and there but I am not confident in my writing.

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

In some ways, I was confident as a teenager - I didn't mind standing on stage in front of loads of people - but innately, I didn't believe in myself. I would always put myself down before anyone else could.

I didn't get into drama school after university. Looking back, I think I was really bad.

Look: the day I've made a movie that I think is really good, I hope I say it out loud so somebody can say, 'Then you probably made the worst movie of your entire career.'

I think I always kind of wanted to be a musician but never dared to say it out loud because I never thought it was possible. I wanted to be a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor - I wanted to be a lot of other things growing up.

What you fear is embarrassing yourself. Anyone who says they don't fear that is lying.

I find it hard to believe when people tell me I inspired them in any kind of way because I think to myself, 'well, why?' It's just me - not Madonna.

When you start out in the industry and things are tough, and you're not really making money, you question yourself: should I give up?

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Not likely!" Howl yelled. "I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell my self I'm not doing it!

I'm a failure! Garbage! You just never stop to think.

I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frighteningly is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.