Emily Mortimer Quotes

I'm usually pretty insecure.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

I'm really insecure about everything.

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.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

I've always been quite an insecure person.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

I was wracked with insecurity.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

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.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.

I fall more on the insecure side of things.