Emily Mortimer Quotes

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

I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

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.'

Overconfidence has never been my problem.

'I don't know' are three words I don't like saying.

What makes anyone think that I'm any good?

We all have skills, I guess.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Trust me," he said. "I know what I'm doing... or at least" -- he strolled confidently to the door -- "Felix does.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.