Jen Kirkman Quotes

I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.

I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

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.

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

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!

The healthy child has to have something to look forward to.

I always wanted to be a teacher or wanted to do something with food. But modeling, I just never thought I could do it myself, really, ever. I still have trouble calling myself a model. I just never thought I was tall enough or skinny enough.

A lot of my career and my drive and my passion and my striving to be better and better was built on insecurity.

Every job I took, I was deeply uncomfortable in terms of feeling unqualified. Every step, every risk I took, built confidence.

I spend so much time hoping things for myself.

Besides acting, I have tons of plans but there is time for it.

I went from thinking I could be a manager to thinking I could do something much bigger than that.

I've always been a mediocre student, so I never won an award in school. I'm not very athletic, so I've never won a sports award. So, I'm a mediocre person.

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.

Any time you feel like you're not playing up to your potential, I think that drives you.

My expectations for myself were really high.

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'

At some point you realize, I have dreams. I would love to be working on wonderful roles, in wonderful films, with people I respect and admire. And that will come in its time. In the meantime, "Pay attention to your work. Get better at what you do." That's my job.

You must have dreams and goals if you are ever going to achieve anything in this world.

One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

I like to keep my expectations low and my aspirations high in my career and my life. That way I'm pleasantly surprised more often than desperately disappointed.

Your ambitions - don't limit them. Where do you want to go, and what would be required of you to grow into that? Put yourself together a plan, and develop the skills to get there.

Maybe I'm not a good enough artist that people just think of me. Maybe in the future, I'll bloom into something that will just make people look at me for what I am.

As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me confidence to move forward.