Kyle Gass Quotes

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

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 always thought everybody else was better than me.

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

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

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Successful people tend to feel simultaneously inadequate and superior.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

Sometimes I feel like I have a good shot, and then I see somebody that has a better shot.

I have been that actor who's watched peers and thought, 'God, they're doing well. I'll never get there.'

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.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

In my mind jealousy would come with seeing people do something that makes it all look extremely easy when it's not, like artists who can draw better than I can. In college, I was different. I was so hungry that anyone else who was published - I couldn't deal with it.

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

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

All artists have insecurity.

When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.