Jim Root Quotes

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

My teammates don't see it, but deep down I find it tough to sit there and not influence big games.

I think that people think that since I literally wrote the book on how to love yourself that I love myself all the time, but I don't.

It's a very hard line to walk, and I certainly am nowhere near having cracked how to do that, but I try to focus on being a brave performer and not worrying about my lighting or whatever, even though, then, sometimes I see myself on screen, and I'm like, "Why did you wear that, look like that, whatever," but I'm also more accepting that is what it is. There's this battle always.

I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it's like to feel like busted because you're crazy.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.

All artists have insecurity.

That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

I think if you start to think too much about things that are completely out of control, it will just drive you crazy as an actor.

I haven't met a woman without insecurities.

There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles... We've all had someone who has hurt us. So let's talk about it.

You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.