Dale Earnhardt Jr. Quotes

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

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.

A fear of not being good enough? But that's what drives me.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

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.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

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

If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

It's funny, I never think I'm doing that well. I've never, ever. I just constantly think, 'This isn't working out.'

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

I'm too neurotic to ever feel good. If I ever felt good, I think something horrible would happen.

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.