Andy Richter Quotes

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.

We're not quite mainstage material. We're more like outhouse material!

I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.

Not even a public figure. A man of no experience and of the utmost insignificance.

My name is new in the field; and I suppose I am not the first choice of a very great many.

Was there ever anyone more ill-suited for being the showman of the year than me?

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

'Imposter Syndrome' is the feeling of wearing a mask and playing a role that one does not feel at home in. It is when you feel like you or your work is a fluke and that you're a dwarf amongst giants. Many of us have this, especially when we're in some sort of creative industry.

I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.

I am proud of my immaturity and political inexperience.

I've played a lot of untalented people.

We were so young when we started, quite naive and shy - we kind of knew what we were doing but didn't because we hadn't been stage schooled.

If I were FX, I wouldn't have hired me.

I don't know much of direction even after acting in so many movies. In fact, I still don't understand some simple things.

We were kind of young and a little naive when we first started out in the business.

I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.

I never give myself enough credit.