Selena Gomez Quotes

A lot of my career and my drive and my passion and my striving to be better and better was built on insecurity.

Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

As successful as it may appear I am, I don't really feel that. It's like, you know you've achieved some level of success, and you know what you've done, and yet you still feel you have more to do and more to prove.

Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'

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'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.

I'm a person and an actor that's constantly unsatisfied. I'm always reaching for something higher.

I'm just propelled by insecurity; that's what really leads me to want to do better.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I didn't handle success all that well.

I'm really scared of failing.

Sometimes when people ask a lot of me, or they're not liking what I'm turning in, especially when I'm working one on one with someone, I can get really insecure.

I have dreams where everything will disappear or go away, so I'm always working harder each year.

It's a blessing and a curse, 'cause I'm never satisfied, so I continually want to outdo myself. But still, I'm never happy.