Roger Angell Quotes

I'm wildly unskilled at what I do. Part of me thinks: 'Why do I think I can pull this off?' but the part of me that has to pay the mortgage thinks: 'Just get on with it!' I'll just keep going until someone discovers I'm no good.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. 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.

When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

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 have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.

There is always that thing when you step up a level and you worry, am I going to be good enough? There's always doubt in my mind.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

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

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

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

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

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

When you're fearful, you stumble.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

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

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.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

I'm not brave at all.

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.