Henry Winkler Quotes

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in high school who felt like they knew what they wanted to do with their lives, and that was intimidating to me because I didn't.

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

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

I worry a lot about what people think. I worry people think I'm not helping them enough, that they don't like my music, that I'm playing a song too fast or talking too fast. I worry my wife isn't happy with our relationship... I'm afraid somebody's going to take my career away from me. That it's going to go away, or I'm going to get fired.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

When you come from where I come from, you're trying to get approval for something - you don't know what.

I'm as crippled with doubt as the next actor.

I don't feel like I make sense in the world. I don't feel like I look right. I don't feel like I act right or do right. It's very frustrating to me that I just walk around with this all the time.

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

Sometimes I feel I don't know even know how to run.

LA is a harsh city to be in when you're a little girl from the South, and you have absolutely no idea what you're doing and you are thinking, 'Am I making, have I made a massive mistake? I don't have money to move back home. My parents are not on board with this. What do I do?'

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

I have a fear of failure.

I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.

Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment.

I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college.

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