Sam Altman Quotes

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

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.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.

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

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.

I always felt like a fraud.

I am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

Anxiety and doubt are among my biggest struggles as a writer.

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.