Shirley Jackson Quotes

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

As for relationships, I know nothing. I'm an idiot; I can't get it right.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

It's not like I have all the answers.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

It's funny, I really feel like I've learned a lot in my career but I still feel like a child. Like, an 11-year-old? I think it will be like that all my life, actually.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

'I don't know' are three words I don't like saying.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

I really think insecurity is something that comes with being an actor - I don't know actors who aren't insecure. I do think I kind of lie to myself - there is a percentage of ego involved. And I don't say that's a bad thing - it's good to know that it's there whether we like it or not. But ego is like a lion that we have to keep under control.

Either this guy really liked me, or I was inventing things in my head because I wanted him to like me. I was much too inexperienced to guess which.

Adrian gave the picture a nod of approval before handing me the phone. "Okay, even I can admit that's pretty cute." I found myself overanalyzing the comment. What had he meant in saying 'even he' could admit it? That I was cute for a human? Or that I had just met some kind of Adrian hot-girl criteria?

Only the fools are certain and assured.