Erskine Bowles Quotes

Whenever you can, count.

I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

I lack confidence as an actor.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

I lost my confidence.

Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.

I'm probably one of the worst people with numbers you've ever met. My brothers always kid that they think I'm counting cards in Vegas, but I'm just trying to add things up.

Sometimes you can doubt your own abilities to do certain things. We get nervous, we get stuck, or we're not sure if we can live up to what we want to do.

I doubted myself for a long time.

Everyone keeps saying I’ll pick it up. But what if I don’t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

I feel intimidated by fashion.

I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

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

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

Only the insecure strive for security.

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.