Iskra Lawrence Quotes

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

It's pretty disabling sometimes, the terror of not living up. My expectations are the worst.

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I think I'm slightly OCD. I'll be desperate to get a part, but as soon as I do, the sense of pride wears off almost immediately, and fear of not doing a good job sets in. I'll think, 'This is a dream come true,' and then, 'It's not OK until I get a good review.'

Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, 'You're not good enough,' or, 'You can't do this or that.' You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.

I struggle with perfection.

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

I'm not great at taking compliments because I always find the thing I could do better.

I am highly critical of myself. I am never satisfied with my work.

A fear of not being good enough? But that's what drives me.

For some reason, I think that I'm not doing enough work. People are like, 'You're on a series right now,' but I'm always like, 'Yeah, but I can do more!'