Dan Miller Quotes

Self-doubt kills talent.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

There's a difference between wanting to appear confident and actually feeling confident. I think there have been many times when I've overcompensated for how nervous or out of place I feel. I was like that at school.

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

I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.

When you get older, you start to doubt, and you put limitations on yourself. But little Teyonah had no fear.

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

A fear of not being good enough? But that's what drives me.

Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

I hate those people that get up and they're amazing. I think you just have to be kind of wasted to go and do it.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

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've got so many weaknesses.

I lack confidence as an actor.

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.

One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

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.

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

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.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

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