Dave Franco Quotes

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Part of me was always trying to prove that I belonged and prove that I deserved the job and prove that I could handle it. And that takes the fun out of it.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

I have to prove myself to everybody.

I went through it in high school. It's like, 'Who am I? Am I good enough? Is my background good enough? I know I'm different, but do I have a voice?'

I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I always feel like I'm the one with everything to prove.

It's kind of hard to believe that people love me.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

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 wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

I have to prove myself five times over.

Don't let that nagging fear - that feeling that being different automatically qualifies you as being wrong - eat away at you.

The truth is you only have yourself to offer. And when you come to that realization, it's terrifying, because you think it's probably not enough.

I'll never feel like I've made it.

Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

I always felt like a fraud.

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

Like most people in college, I just wasn't really sure who I was.

The need to make sure everyone knows all of the great stuff about us is usually an insecurity in itself.