Carlene Carter Quotes

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'

Have I gone too far?

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.

I always wish I had another shot at it. But, listen, 'Godzilla' is something that I grew up loving. We worked hard to go make one. We kind of blew it. I think everyone gets one.

If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.

If I had stayed there, swallowed my pride, been able to save Orlando all over again, which is what they were trying to get me to do there, I'd be O.K. now.

It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

You only get one shot at a second chance.

I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.'

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

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

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.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.