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Self-doubt kills talent.
Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.
Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.
I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.
I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.
I've never been that person who has a lot of self-doubt.
A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.
Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
You are bigger than your self-doubt. Remind yourself of that each and every day.
Self-doubt is a constant companion for a chubby, gay, black boy born in the South.
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
When it comes to procrastination and overthinking, we have to overcome our self-doubt.
As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.
It's always a long process of trying to suppress the self-doubt on set when you're acting.
I do want to say the process of writing a novel is riddled with self-doubt and self-loathing.
I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.
We're past the self-doubt. We just have fun with it and just try to make the best music that we can make.
I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.
Everyone sort of has that voice of self-doubt in their head, but as an artist, you relinquish your right to have that voice.
I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.
Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
When you're winning, your confidence is through the roof, but when you're losing, that self-doubt is like, 'Am I doing the right thing?'
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.
However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.
Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.
I'm always nervous. A classy comedian is full of self-doubt disguised with an air of false confidence. If there isn't self-doubt, you seem aggressive.
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.
I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
Struggling with confidence and self-doubt are things that everyone goes through, especially kids, but I set goals, worked hard and leant on the people around me.
The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.
It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring.
Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.