Janina Gavankar Quotes

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.

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.

Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

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

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

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

When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

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

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

I'm a very nervous, shy person.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.

I was always the guy - out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.

I'm not the guy who bursts into the room. I'm the most insecure person you'll meet if you get to know me.

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

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

I'm too insecure to have people hate me.

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I kept thinking they were going to realize they'd made a mistake by hiring me.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.