Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I'm not much of a fighter.

I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'

I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

I was going on years and years of auditions and being told I was too this, too that, not enough of this, not enough of that, to the point where I was so afraid and diluting myself into absolutely nothing...

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.

She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior position” that she wouldn’t need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don’t, nothing will work out the way they want.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.