Stockard Channing Quotes

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.

I am just scared to death of online dating.

I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.”

I'm certainly not computer savvy, at all. I joined Twitter kicking and screaming, and very reluctantly.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.

When I don't know what to do, I just open my mouth. Why won't anyone date me?

Our eyes are not viewers, they're also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is 'I'll never be enough'

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of her, and I go, 'Ah, we accomplished this together.'

So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.

When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it—guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it—guilt.

I'm just another stupid human.

I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.

Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous.

Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

We make fun of those we're most scared of becoming.

The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.

I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.