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Quotes About Imposter

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.
~ David Chang
I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Most artists think they're frauds anyway.
~ John Milius
Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.
~ Sheridan Smith
I always felt like a fraud.
~ Zoey Tur
I'm not sure anyone ever feels they belong in showbusiness. I think everyone feels a bit of a fraud, that one day they'll get rumbled.
~ Angus Deayton
I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.
~ Carrie Brownstein
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
~ Moby
I'm a good cook, I am not a great cook. I'm an absolute fraud.
~ Prue Leith
I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
~ Gary Larson
I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
~ Mike Myers
Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.
~ Sam Altman
Yes, you're an imposter. But you're an imposter acting in service of generosity, seeking to make things better. When we embrace imposter syndrome instead of working to make it disappear, we choose the productive way forward. The imposter is proof that we're innovating, leading, and creating.
~ Seth Godin
Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'
~ Jason Kilar
You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.
~ Heath Ledger
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.
~ Edward Norton
Even an imposter knows the one truth they cant hide is love
~ Derrick david
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
~ Emile Cioran
Many women feel that no matter how competent others think they are, or no matter how much they achieve, they are really just fooling everyone.
~ Sari Solden
Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter.
~ Augusten Burroughs
he had discovered some astonishing things. It was possible for Vere Ashleigh to find friendship with the type of man he had formerly disliked; it was possible to earn the respect and camaraderie of such men by being himself. An imposter they would not tolerate; a producer of life-like pen-portraits they had taken to their hearts.
~ Emma Drummond