Will Poulter Quotes

You know, I'm really not that bright.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I hate to be smart.

I'm too short to play basketball and too nervous to steal.

I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to their academic expectations. Acting out those insecurities was a way of confronting them, like, “Let me just lean into being a guy who can’t read or write.”

Every time I looked in the mirror, it was like, 'You're not good enough.' 'There's always someone more popular.' 'There's always someone more gifted in music.'

I've struggled a lot in my life with feeling like a failure. I lived in a 'prison of perfectionism,' holding myself to a standard I couldn't possibly live up to. Then I became a mom, and all of a sudden, there arose even more opportunities for failure.

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.

I'm pretty sure the feeling of inadequacy is universal for moms.

In my 15 minutes of fame around 'Diamonds and Dirt,' it was not a healthy time for me because of my insecurity.

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.

Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

My biggest fear, the only fear that I have is failing. I hate to fail at anything that I do and that's really my only fear in life, to be a failure.

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

I didn't have stage parents and sometimes I've envied people who did because I felt like, I guess, I'm compulsively worried I'm not accomplishing enough.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I am not superhuman, and we all feel insecure at times.

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 hate getting things wrong and I hate failing.

I'd rather speak less because I don't consider myself a very intelligent person.

My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That's something I struggle with.

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.