Willem Dafoe Quotes

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.

If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

I don't think I could be terribly demanding even if I wanted to be.

You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

Everything I do, I build a kind of confidence net - 'I'm able to execute this; it's fine.'

The truth is you only have yourself to offer. And when you come to that realization, it's terrifying, because you think it's probably not enough.

I never had a lot of confidence in myself.

Sometimes you can doubt your own abilities to do certain things. We get nervous, we get stuck, or we're not sure if we can live up to what we want to do.

The vast majority of my career anywhere I was essentially the only guy who believed in myself.

I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on.

I try to back myself as much as possible.

If I lose my confidence, then I'll lose my way.

I love proving myself wrong. A lot of actors lack confidence - even if you're doing really well, you kind of feel like this might be your last job.

When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn't for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.

I'm pretty confident, I guess I would say.

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.