Bob Kerrey Quotes

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.'

You already feel unsure of yourself, and then you see your worst fears in print. It really knocked me - which is why, I think, I was working, working, working, because I was trying to run away from the fact that I thought I couldn't do 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.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. 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 always so sick of myself after a show.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

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?

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

You still get these waves of doubt that come over you, for example, when you get a bad review or you accept a part and think, 'Oh, God, what have I just accepted? I can't do that.' I don't think that's something that will ever go away in me.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

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.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

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

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

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

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

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

I didn't handle success all that well.

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

I get in my own way a lot. I feel a lot more confident than I... am.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

I have no problems with failures, I'm afraid of failing within myself. At times when I know I did something wrong, I don't sleep that night. I'm scared of facing myself.

It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.