David Faustino Quotes

For me, I've always been the guy who self-sabotages.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

I get in my own head, and at the end of the day, I'm my biggest critic, and I'm my worst enemy, too.

The only person holding you back is you.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

It was me that was holding myself back because I felt like I had to fit into this mold of what people want to see.

You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.

He [Richard Nixon] was more lacking in self-confidence than any leading politician I have known.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

I really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

I am my best enemy.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

I'm not talented enough to drop everything and become somebody different.

If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.

You can never beat your own mind when it plays tricks on you.

I think my worst enemy is me.

The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.