William Hurt Quotes

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.

Successful people tend to feel simultaneously inadequate and superior.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

I've got so many weaknesses.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.

Guys blow my looks up more than I ever would. I guess I have issues with myself. I don't think I'm as pretty as everybody thinks.

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

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

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.'

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

I always wanted to be a Broadway girl. But once I got Tony-nominated, it really messed with me, because it was like, yes, I'm getting this affirmation that you're right where you're supposed to be, but there was still this voice saying, 'You're not good enough.'