Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

I was wracked with insecurity.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

I'm very insecure.

I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

The first day of 'Bling Ring,' I was so nervous and freaking out. I'm a know-it-all and was going into a situation where I couldn't predict what would happen.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Sometimes you can doubt your own abilities to do certain things. We get nervous, we get stuck, or we're not sure if we can live up to what we want to do.

I'm pretty sure the feeling of inadequacy is universal for moms.

I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.