Quotes About Self-doubt

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've learned that it's just working itself out. You have to let it do it.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

I'm forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I'm doing. The truth is I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.

Am I going to be good enough, because I don't have head-coaching experience outside of high school football? I've been around a lot of great head coaches in my career, but you begin to doubt. And, for me, it was the doubt of, 'Are the players going to believe me?'

Always thinking that you're not very good is far better than being cocky.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I don't think I was a good comedian.

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish.

Since I came on the tour so young and I won my first match, I've had a lot of comments like 'You'll be a top player one day.' I got to the point where, as nice as it was to hear that, I almost stopped listening to it. I was almost putting added pressure on myself.

I never did commercials. Not that I didn't want to, but because I can't. I am just so bad at it.

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

There's an incredible amount of people that you can compare yourself with and be like, why am I not doing as well as that person? It's really hard.

The only reason you would hate to be compared to 'Fleabag' is if you were said to be 'not as good as Fleabag'.

If I were to doubt myself, I wouldn't even have a chance to be competing for the NXT Women's Championship.

I've never loved composing, because I feel like other people do it better.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'

I'd always been quite anxious and never felt very confident so I've always over-compensated.

I am not the world's most confident person.

I'm really not that confident!

I'm anything but confident.

I don't think I can be a bright and fresh-looking actress. I am not really confident in that kind of character.

Because my career has gone so fast, I haven't been able to become confident.