Tennessee Williams Quotes

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.

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

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

I'm really insecure about everything.

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.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

I am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

I have a fear of failure.

I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

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 was wracked with insecurity.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.

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

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.

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.