Al Franken Quotes

I am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

All artists have insecurity.

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

I still doubt myself every single day.

I always felt like a fraud.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

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

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

No. I really don't think I'm cool. I'm not.

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.

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

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

Do I have my insecurities? Hell yes, just like anybody else. I can obsess over the most ridiculous things, just like anybody else.

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

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

I will confess that almost all my inspiration has come from one emotion: fear. And terrible dread of the moment when I will finally be exposed as a fraud.

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.