Shahid Kapoor Quotes

I still feel like when I walk on the set, I'm starting from scratch, until I realize, 'OK, I do know what I'm doing. I'm human.'

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

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.

Actors, by nature, are insecure. I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing. It is good to question yourself, be self-analytical. You get a better performance if you challenge yourself. If you go around thinking you're great, you're never going to challenge or scare yourself.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

I don't know if I'm more confident than ever before, because I definitely had confidence when I was starting out. Maybe I have less confidence now that I did then.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

You just can't spend any time second-guessing yourself.

I feel this emptiness in me, like I still got something to prove and I still got so much stuff to work on in my game.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

There is always that thing when you step up a level and you worry, am I going to be good enough? There's always doubt in my mind.

I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.