Regis Philbin Quotes

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

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.

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

I lost my confidence.

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

Self-doubt kills talent.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

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!

I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.

There's one thing now that I experience every day when I'm making a film. I get up and think to myself, 'Am I going to be able to do it today?' I figure as long as I have that fear, I'll be alright.

I still feel like when I walk on the set, I'm starting from scratch, until I realize, 'OK, I do know what I'm doing. I'm human.'

It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.

There's always doubt and fear. If you're a human being, everybody's got it.

When you're not playing, sometimes you're not full of confidence.

For the first part of my career, I did what I was told, and I wasn't getting anywhere. I'd get in such a state when I was asked to do something, and it didn't feel right, and I'd end up feeling that I wasn't very good.

I doubted myself for a long time.

I always felt like a fraud.

I am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

Will I be a success? I don't know.