Quotes About Self-doubt

I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.

It's easy to question yourself and ask if you're doing a good job, but there are so many different factors to landing a role. I remind myself that a lot of it is completely out of my control.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

It's what I call the haute couture, high-end version of fear perfectionism. It's just fear in really good shoes. But it's still fear.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

I have loads of stuff that never came out because I really don't think it's good enough.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

You can go from having all your stuff together and really feeling good about yourself to really figuring you can't run a lick.

I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

My family was not an artistic family, but somewhere in my head, I thought I might be good at it. I don't know why I thought it. I had no evidence to think I might be good at it.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we're not good enough.

I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

I sometimes think about writing just to keep my mind active when I'm not working, but I don't think I would be good enough.

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.