Claire Tomalin Quotes

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.

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

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

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

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

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 don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

It's funny, I never think I'm doing that well. I've never, ever. I just constantly think, 'This isn't working out.'

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.'

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

Twenty is a hard time. It doesn't matter what profession you're in or how much experience you have, you're always going to be haunted by this feeling of failing. It's terrifying.

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.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

Most of the stuff I do is garbage.

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

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

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I was wracked with insecurity.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do it.