Quotes About Self-doubt

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.

I wouldn't say I always have the talent to do something - I think I definitely probably have a moderate amount of talent - but I can pretend to have confidence or, I guess, charisma... It's so hard to look at myself like that.

Honestly, I think there are many celebrities out there who are prettier than me.

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

I don't think I'm good enough to bring alive the character of my mother, even if it is on screen. Besides, my mother was a classical dancer, and I am very bad at it.

I'm not a great dancer.

I was so nervous about dancing because I've always thought of myself as a terrible dancer.

The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.

At Treviso, my entire career was in danger; I lost all self-esteem and confidence.

I would never dare say that I'm an artist.

Prince of Darkness?' I don't know what the hell I was doing.

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

I wasn't the kind of guy who was like 'here's my demo,' or 'listen to my demo.' I just never thought it was that good.

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous, and I am capable of doing something to blow it on purpose. A lot of actors have that problem.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again.

When my first film flopped, I got damn depressed.

There were very depressing days when the whole year everyone was working, and you were sitting at home because half of the people weren't giving you work and then there were some who didn't like you.

As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before and I desperately wanted to finish a book for the first time.