Miriam Shor Quotes

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

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.

I'm supposed to be perfect.

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well.

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.

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.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

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 feel overestimated.

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

I digested this value system that told me there was no one for me unless I reached a certain type of perfection. And as you get older, you realize that ideal is constantly changing.

I struggle with perfection.

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?

I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.

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

Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.

I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

Insecurity's best cover is perfectionism. That's where it becomes an art form.

I never felt good enough about myself. I could be better at this, I could be better at that. I could look better. My work could be better. That whole idea that you're going to get caught, you're going to be found out as a fraud. That's one of those reasons I got up at 2:30 in the morning.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.