Arne Jacobsen Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

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.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

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

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

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'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

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

I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.

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

I still doubt myself every single day.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.