Edmond Rostand Quotes

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

Everyone fears rejection.

I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

I was always afraid to write music.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

I'm usually pretty insecure.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth.

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

I don't know if I'm brave.

I'm definitely not a fearless individual.

I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.

I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.