Julie London Quotes

I lost my confidence.

One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.

All artists have insecurity.

I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

Every woman has... self doubt.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

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.'

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.

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.

You get into comedy because you are insecure, and you communicate with the world through comedy to sort of alleviate the tension of those insecurities and to find a way to make people like you other than the way you look or how good you are at sports. I don't think that really goes away.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

When you're not playing, sometimes you're not full of confidence.

I still have a lot of moments where I don't feel worthy.

I doubted myself for a long time.

I am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

I was not happy with myself as a human being when I was very young - I was afraid of people; I was afraid of talking, I didn't know how to express myself other than by being on stage.

I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person.

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 was holding my mum's hands and praying. Will people accept me with my pimples and hoarse voice?