Shemar Moore Quotes

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.

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

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.

Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.

I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'

The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

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

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.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

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.

I'm wildly unskilled at what I do. Part of me thinks: 'Why do I think I can pull this off?' but the part of me that has to pay the mortgage thinks: 'Just get on with it!' I'll just keep going until someone discovers I'm no good.

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, 'I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.' And still I would question it. Did she mean it?

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

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 still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

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 do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

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

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotencies.