Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

I don't know if I'm 'normal.'

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

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

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

I lost my confidence.

I'm the worst tweeter ever. I don't know what I'm doing. I really don't.

I once missed an appointment because I left my house, I locked the door. And then I thought, like anybody else, you know, 'I don't think I locked the door.' I just kept going back to the door. And I couldn't stop myself from checking and checking.

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.

I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.

I was neurotic and weird from an early age.

I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life.

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

I feel very ill-equipped to be giving anyone advice about their life.