William Sanderson Quotes

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.

I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

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 am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

I'm afraid to fail again.

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.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

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

In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I just don't want to fail, to be honest.

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

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.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

I have a fear of failure.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.

I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I grew up doubting myself. It was a very spotty, frustrating, worrying time.