Ellie Kemper Quotes

No, I'm not perfect in any way.

I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

I've got so many weaknesses.

I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses.

I don't have all the answers.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've never been very good at... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.

I'm not perfect.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

Oh, I wish I could tell you I was a Mr. Fix-It, but I am not that kind of guy. I get frustrated so easily.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it.

My opening words to anybody I hire are, 'I'm an extremely vulnerable person.'

People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.

Anything you rely on can become a crutch. And disabled or not, when you rely on something, that is what will cripple you.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

There are going to be things I'm not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I will never, ever sit here and say, 'Oh my God, I'm so confident now, I love myself', because I don't.