Frank O'Hara Quotes

Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.

It feels like my hard work has paid off, but at the same time, I still have the impostor, you know, syndrome. I still feel like I'm going to wake up, and everybody's going to see me for the hack I am.

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.

I'll never feel like I've made it.

I still don't feel like I've made it. I can't imagine ever feeling like I've made it.

I never feel proud of anything I do really.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

I don't think I'm successful.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

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.

Successful people tend to feel simultaneously inadequate and superior.

It's a mixed feeling when everything you've ever wanted in making films is coming true, and yet you feel scared because it's happening all at once. Suddenly you're in rooms with people you've looked up to for years, the Judi Denches. You wonder if you're good, if you have what it takes.

As successful as it may appear I am, I don't really feel that. It's like, you know you've achieved some level of success, and you know what you've done, and yet you still feel you have more to do and more to prove.

I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

There was a lot of reflection - I know that - wondering, 'What in the hell am I doing?' But it paid off.

I don't think at any age I will be able to feel totally accomplished.

Even when you are there on top, you feel the same nerves.

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.

...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.

I'm a bit rubbish at knowing when something is good. But if it goes out and I can say, "I wasn't as bad as I thought I would be", then I'll be happy. Until then, I'll be thinking, "I shouldn't be here!"