Lynsey Addario Quotes

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

I know I have trouble watching my own films.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

All artists have insecurity.

I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

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 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.

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

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.

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.'

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'

If you're a writer, you're constantly doubting yourself.

Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity.

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?

I've got so many weaknesses.

The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.