Jacob Anderson Quotes

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite happens, I go into a funk. A real, real funk.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.

You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

I'm horribly self-critical.

I put enough pressure on myself already - I can sit here and work myself into an anxiety-filled breakdown without worrying what everyone else is going to think.

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.

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

You can drive your own self crazy. You don't have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That's really the thing that gets you.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

At times, my confidence is rock bottom, although I try for it to be sky high, thanks to the people that are always there with me and support me.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

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

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.