Jenny Ryan Quotes

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.

I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.

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've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.

There's a difference between feeling nervous and feeling: 'I'm not worthy of taking the ice.'

I get in my own way a lot. I feel a lot more confident than I... am.

Every time I've been offered a new job, I've automatically said, 'Oh, I don't think you want me for that job.' It's sort of a weird female - or, at least, it is in me - a weird female defense, when, in fact, what you want to do is scream, 'Hooray, I want to do this!'

In the past, I've lacked confidence and sometimes that can show physically.

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

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.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

I'm anything but confident.

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.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.

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 can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

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 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.

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 am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.