Madelyn Cline Quotes

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.

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

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

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 have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

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.

I grew up doubting myself. It was a very spotty, frustrating, worrying time.

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

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.

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

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 felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

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 second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.