Sean Maguire Quotes

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

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

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

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 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.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

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.'

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

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

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

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.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

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.

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

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

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

To this day, I haven't felt like I've made it. I'm waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me. I kind of feel like George Plimpton; I'm just experiencing this whole business with the really talented people.

As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away.

Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.

There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'