Adam Savage Quotes

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

I'm the worst tweeter ever. I don't know what I'm doing. I really don't.

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!'

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

I don't even really know what it is I do for a living - the level of insecurity is very, very high. You're making a lot of money, getting a lot of accolades and positive criticism for something where you don't even know what you're doing.

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.

When I was a freshman at Yale, one teacher brought me up after class and said, 'You're trying to undermine my class.' And I thought to myself, 'Oh my God, I'm going to be kicked out of school on the first week.' Not only do I not have a sense of self, I don't even know what she's talking about. I don't even know how to undermine anything.

I'm not good at answering questions. I always get myself into trouble.

I don't feel like I make sense in the world. I don't feel like I look right. I don't feel like I act right or do right. It's very frustrating to me that I just walk around with this all the time.

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

Sometimes I feel I don't know even know how to run.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s frightening.

I am plagued by doubts.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

I actually didn't enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live. Just because I was too confused in generating too many answers for myself that just scared me more.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

We live with a future where every three or four months, we have to question everything. You think you could be the best, or that you're nothing and you don't know what you're doing. It is exhausting.

Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.

Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.

I tend to scare myself.

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."