Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.

I don't really know how to do anything else except music. But I do. I've never felt more comfortable doing it. When I was put into arenas and stadiums when I was 27, I always thought somebody was going to say, 'No, they're not here for you.' You don't quite believe that they actually like you, because it's an extreme change in your life. Which is insane really, because they bought the ticket. So you start feeling more comfortable in your skin the more you do something, or the older you get.

It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don't.

There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

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

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, 'You're gorgeous.' And I was like, 'What?'

I don't think I really have the respect that I think I deserve.

I'm always checking other people's opinions.

I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.

I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.

Everyone around me has more confidence in me than I do in myself.