Jameela Jamil Quotes

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

I don't know if people consider me a deep threat, but maybe I'll get there one day.

There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.

Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

I don't think I'm successful.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

I lost my confidence.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I've always thrived on challenges, both personally and professionally.

I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.

Sometimes you can doubt your own abilities to do certain things. We get nervous, we get stuck, or we're not sure if we can live up to what we want to do.