Elia Kazan Quotes

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

I consider myself a little weak.

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

I never had a lot of confidence in myself.

Everybody has an ego, and they don't like their athletic ability to be questioned.

When I'm away from sport and not doing something I have much self-belief in, I can lack self-confidence at times.

I just don't want to be seen as a strong person.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person's friend. But we all know what we're insecure about. The question I had as I was writing was, 'How are these things affecting the way I live? How am I compensating because I don't like this about myself? What do I do to cover it up?'

I'm not someone that always feels confident about himself.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Everyone fears rejection.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

I just don't like my face.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.