Laura Benanti Quotes

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.

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

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

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

I talk like I know what I'm saying, but I don't.

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

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

Sometimes I may come off like I know what I'm doing or I'm confident, but I'm not always.

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

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.

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.

When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

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.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

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!'

Self-doubt kills talent.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

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.