Shannen Doherty Quotes

I'm always so sick of myself after a show.

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

Once I got beat by Mayweather I felt so ashamed. I cancelled all my functions, all my appearances, I didn't want to walk down the street. I was too embarrassed to even go and have a pint with my mates.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

I hate being rejected.

Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.

It's frustrating not to play well.

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

At this moment I am feeling disappointed with myself and I am hurt and numb...

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

I promote my own self-hatred.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.