Keren Ann Quotes

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

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

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

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.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

When you put yourself out there, you're putting yourself in the position to make a mistake.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

It's your own fear of failure that stops you from doing things.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.

It's only human to have a few doubts whether to play or not.

Every time I put myself out there, I get rejected.

There is always that thing when you step up a level and you worry, am I going to be good enough? There's always doubt in my mind.