Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

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.'

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

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous.

I have a fear of failure.

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

I worry a lot about what people think. I worry people think I'm not helping them enough, that they don't like my music, that I'm playing a song too fast or talking too fast. I worry my wife isn't happy with our relationship... I'm afraid somebody's going to take my career away from me. That it's going to go away, or I'm going to get fired.

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 always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

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

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