Quotes About Self-doubt

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

I love that, 'mommy-shaming.' When I was a new mom, I was obsessed with how I was being perceived and trying to fit in as a mom, going to mommy-and-me classes and things like that, and never quite measuring up to 'the real moms,' the 'robot moms,' as I called them.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

My fear of making mistakes or my anxiety about being perceived less than serious or perfect was holding me back from being good at my job.

I struggle with perfection.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

I am unfortunately a perfectionist at heart, so it's really hard to allow myself to not be good.

I've always been an anxious performer. I've never liked performing.

We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.

More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.

I go through periods where I feel very confident about stuff but other periods that are insecure... I find doing different stuff removes the responsibility of focussing on one thing.

I think Im addicted to periods of doubt and low confidence. I think you should worry if you dont have them because then youre not trying hard enough.

Believe me, the stumbling block in your mind is worse than the stumbling block on your path. If you think you can't, you can't!!

I have my writers' neuroses but not their talents.

Your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to be convince yourself of.

Your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.

What Ryan had learned from this is that your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to convince yourself of.

Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.

Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

I think where I feel the most vulnerable and anxious and sometimes insecure is when it comes to my work. It's arguably the thing that I care about the most.

People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons.