Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.

I feel this emptiness in me, like I still got something to prove and I still got so much stuff to work on in my game.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

I was never my favourite subject.

It's tough being me.

I'm not great at talking about myself.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!

The idea of me being an icon or something is a very funny thing, just because of my own weird insecurities. But, yeah... probably because I toiled away being nothing for so long.

When you're not playing, you always question yourself.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.