Kim Basinger Quotes

Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.

I trust no one, not even myself.

I'm a bit of a Doubting Thomas - always worrying about things.

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?” said David. “I don't have much faith in anything,” Roland replied. “Not even in myself.”

I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.

The worst of poisons: to mistrust one's power.

There are definitely a lot of doubters out there.

I'm the opposite of the actor that is bursting with confidence who just knows they're going to make it. I'm the guy who's like yeah, probably, it won't happen.

I always have doubts. I am weary of people.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

But you ain't part of it, are you?" said Granny conversationally. "You try, but you always find yourself watchin' yourself watchin' people, eh? Never quite believin' anything? Thinkin' the wrong thoughts?

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.

There are many different kinds of doubt. When we doubt the future, we call it worry. When doubt other people we call is suspicion. When we doubt ourselves we call it inferiority. When we doubt God we call it unbelief. When we doubt what we hear on television we call it intelligence! When we doubt everything we call it cynicism or skepticism.

Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous.