Quotes About Self-doubt

I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

I am not a very good actor.

I love to write songs, but they don't come easy to me - I spend a lot of time writing really dumb stuff that I have to look at the next day and think, 'God, what was I thinking?' That's my process, is just to go through a lot of dumb stuff and hope that, after a lot of hard work, I'll find a good idea.

I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person.

I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something.

It took me a while to affirm the fact that I'm actually a really good writer. I couldn't even call myself a writer with a straight face because I didn't take my gift seriously.

Lui, il n'avait jamais vu ce que les autres trouvaient de bien à son visage. Trop maigre, trop tordu, pas assez pur à son goût. En aucune façon il ne serait tombé amoureux d'un type dans son genre. Mais les autres, oui, souvent.

They fear their higher self, because when it speaks, it speaks demandingly.

It is obvious that my head does not stand properly on my shoulders; for it is well known that everyone else knows better than I what I should do and not do: only I, poor rogue, do not know what I should be at. Are we not all like statues with the wrong heads on them? Isn't that so, my dear neighbor? - But no, you, precisely you, are the exception.

Mutter ich bin dumm.

I feel like there's a voice in my head, always, telling me every idea is brilliant, and another telling me every idea is the worst. And they argue in my head until somebody wins, until I solicit an audience to be, like, 'Will you help me figure this out? Is this the best or the worst idea?' And they tell me!

I have developed a nasty habit of losing to the guy who wins the tournament, and that alone makes you think what you could have achieved.

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good.' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not.'

I wish that I was one of those kids who grew up saying I always wanted to be an astronaut and was really good at science and math. But that wasn't really the case. I always liked it, but I never believed I was one of the smart kids.

Yes, I am nervous before a film's release and withdraw into a shell.

I think so often we have these ambitions or these hopes within us that we kill before we ever let it escape our lips because we are afraid.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I was not a witty girl.

One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I don't know anything.' The only thing I'd ever technically studied was filmmaking.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.