Quotes About Imposter

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?

I did a guest episode of 'Royal Pains,' and then right after that, 'Supergirl' happened, and I was like, 'How did I get here?' Every day, I walk on set, and I'm waiting for someone to be like, 'Ma'am, you can't be here.'

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

I always felt like whatever I achieved - grades, salaries, promotions, even my wife and children - was a mistake. Like I had somehow fooled everyone into thinking I was worthy of what they'd given me.

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

Every time I get a role, I'm surprised. It's like, 'Alright, when am I going to stop fooling them?'

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

Christ is God or He is the world's greatest liar and imposter.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

I sort of have imposter syndrome, and I think when is this all going to end, when are they going to realise that I'm not a proper TV presenter.

I still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.

To this day, I haven't felt like I've made it. I'm waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me. I kind of feel like George Plimpton; I'm just experiencing this whole business with the really talented people.

When the pope sits on the chamber pot to shit, does he believe in his own infallibility? Does not every imposter occasionally recognize his own hairy, homely humanity? Perhaps not; worn long enough, sometimes the Mask of Authority becomes the man. Even looking in a mirror, he will see the sacred Mask and not his own ordinary human face.

I would have liked to be called a dreamer had I known how to dream. The sense of being an imposter, I understand, occurs naturally, and those who do not occasional feel so I find untrustworthy. I would not mind being taken as many things I am not: a shy person, a cheerful person, a cold person. But I do not want to be called a dreamer when I am far from being a real one.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Dr. Kerr rose off the bed. "Damned fool," he growled. "Excuse me?" I said. "Rowley, the imposter. Autumnal fever indeed. Your mother has yellow fever. There's no doubt at all.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

What is conditional love? Conditional love is an oxymoron. Conditional love is an imposter of love. Conditional love is something other than love, because you cannot conditionalize the un-conditional.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

Anyone who practices ad hoc development under the guise of agile methods is an imposter.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.