Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

I have to prove myself five times over.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

I just feel like I have a lot to prove.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.

I have to prove myself to everybody.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

I wish you could make money and people never saw what you did. Then you could relax and not care about how bad you are.

Competitiveness only comes with insecurity.

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.

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

I don't think at any age I will be able to feel totally accomplished.

I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.

I'll always have something to prove.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.

I've always felt a strong urge to prove myself.

I always felt I had to prove my intelligence.

I feel I have to earn everybody's respect.

I had intense anxiety, just with the acting and expectations. Am I good enough for this? This is so big. I'm on the cover of four magazines right now. Am I worthy of this? You question everything about yourself, and I did that. I put a lot of pressure on myself to make sure that I had the body and all of that.

On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.