Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

I'm always living at least a year ahead of where I'm really at, and that can really lead you to some negative thoughts and some bad vibes.

I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

I have been driven demented in my career.

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Here's my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they're emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that's 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.