Quotes About Self-doubt

Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should be one way, but I'm not." Toby stared at her. "I hear that." He sighed. "There are all these perfect people here. And... it's like, if you're not one of the,. then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just as messed up as we are.

Naelin resisted rolling her eyes. This was absurd. She was consorting with born-from-the-womb heroes. She wasn't worthy if this.

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

I really asked myself, "Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?" That's what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

I really need to push myself and try my hardest every time, because I come from the premise that I'm not very good and I have to give my best. Otherwise, I don't deliver.

I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing.

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.

As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.

We're not being stopped by something on the outside, but by something on the inside.