Simon Singh Quotes

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.

The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.

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.

I'm not like a high intellectual. That's the thing.

I still don't find myself a very confident person about my looks or my body.

I'm very shy. I wish more people believed me when I say that.

I always wanted to be the pretty girl, but I thought I wasn't. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd.

I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel.

I never felt that I had the natural intellectual gifts that the people who graduate first in their class from Harvard Law had.

I was never going to be a scholar.

It's hard not to let criticism make you feel bad about yourself - I do continue to struggle with that as an older woman in the workplace.

I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

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.

It's not like I'm nervous of people seeing what I can or can't do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.

Most people experience some insecurity regarding one or more of their physical traits.

When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. And there were just so many moments when I realized, like, okay, why can't I just be like some normal person and go have a 75% average like everyone else.

I always felt like a fraud.

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

I actually think I suck. I think I'm one of the worst announcers, one of the worst performers there is. It blows my mind that I keep getting hired. But when I'm doing it, yeah, I'll admit: No one can do it like I can.

I've always known I was good, but if other people dont think so, it can hurt your confidence.

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

I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't do much else to be honest.

I don't know what people think of me. If they think I'm super confident, that's wrong because I still have insecurities like anybody else.

I was a good but not super serious student until about 10th grade, until I was about 14 or 15. Then I started to realise how competitive the world is. I started to meet kids who were more high-performing.