Dominick Dunne Quotes

I've held myself back a lot for a lack of confidence.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

I have never really been confident about my career at any stage.

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I was doing would probably be the last one I would get. I really never thought that I stacked up with the other girls.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

I'm usually pretty insecure.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

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

I'd be on stage in Ireland performing for thousands of people and just not believing in what I'm doing at all. And it hurt, it hurt badly. I knew every day that I couldn't continue this way.

I do believe I'm not good enough to be a professional dancer. I believe that in my heart.

I don't think I will be able act; I am not talented in that area.

When I was growing up, I wasn't particularly great at anything. I was in my own world, and my teachers felt I'd never reach my potential. Even in sports, I'd only play team games because I felt I was not good enough to outshine anyone.

It's something that I feel every young person goes through, this idea that they're not doing enough, or that they're stuck. Definitely when I was in high school I was like, 'What am I doing here, I want to be an actor, instead I'm just stuck at school and I'm not doing anything.'

I'd rather speak less because I don't consider myself a very intelligent person.

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

I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.

I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.

Underconfidence breeds underachievement.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

I knew I wasn't going to be a dunker.