Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

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'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

Sometimes I may come off like I know what I'm doing or I'm confident, but I'm not always.

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

It feels like my hard work has paid off, but at the same time, I still have the impostor, you know, syndrome. I still feel like I'm going to wake up, and everybody's going to see me for the hack I am.

Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

I always felt like a fraud.

At first, I was scared that if I claimed I modeled, people would be like, 'What?'

I used to consider myself weak.

I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily.

We're afraid of letting people see the glory of who we are.

My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again". Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.

Everyone feels like an underdog, at some point in their life. Even the best-looking people and the most athletic probably have a phase in their life - a year or two - where they're awkward or they have braces.