Geraldine McCaughrean Quotes

I don't know, I don't know how to do anything. I'm just like, doing impressions of what I've seen other people do, and hoping no one knows that I'm actually just a little monster in a human suit making my arms go up and down.

There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!'

I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

I'm forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I'm doing. The truth is I haven't got a clue what I'm doing.

Women often seem to have a fear of being 'found out'. Of thinking they've pulled the wool over their boss's eyes to get a job they don't deserve. I thought like that for years - but I'm massively over it now.

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I was doing would probably be the last one I would get. I really never thought that I stacked up with the other girls.

I feel like a fraud... My name is not even actually Ashton. Ashton is my middle name.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.

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.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.

Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

I put up a front to make people think I had all of this confidence in myself, which I didn't.