Shura Quotes

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.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

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

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.'

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.

A fear of not being good enough? But that's what drives me.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.

It's funny, I never think I'm doing that well. I've never, ever. I just constantly think, 'This isn't working out.'

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

I get in my own way a lot. I feel a lot more confident than I... am.

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

I still think people will find out that I’m really not very talented. I’m really not very good. It’s all been a big sham.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

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