Paul McCartney Quotes

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

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

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

No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

As actors, we tend to usually have some issues with self-esteem and some need for validation, and it takes awhile for that fear of not having a job to go away.

Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.

I always make things worse than they are or create problems that aren't there. And going and doing some simple task becomes a problem. I start imagining problems that aren't there. What people are going to think, who's going to judge me and am I going to be good enough? Am I worthy?

A fear of not being good enough? But that's what drives me.

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

I never felt good enough about myself. I could be better at this, I could be better at that. I could look better. My work could be better. That whole idea that you're going to get caught, you're going to be found out as a fraud. That's one of those reasons I got up at 2:30 in the morning.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

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 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.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

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'm wildly unskilled at what I do. Part of me thinks: 'Why do I think I can pull this off?' but the part of me that has to pay the mortgage thinks: 'Just get on with it!' I'll just keep going until someone discovers I'm no good.

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

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

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