Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

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

I always felt like a fraud.

I don't think I'm as good as people say.

Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

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.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

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.

I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good.' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not.'

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

Sometimes I may come off like I know what I'm doing or I'm confident, but I'm not always.

I still have a lot of moments where I don't feel worthy.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

I'd rather speak less because I don't consider myself a very intelligent person.

I doubt myself a lot. And I'm very, very just overly critical.

I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.