Sophie Cookson Quotes

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.

I've always felt like an imposter, in the whole, as a musician.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

I never feel like I have anything. People can tell me a thousand times, 'You're the guy, you're the guy,' and I'm just like, 'We'll see when I'm on the set.'

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

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

That's something I go through every day - you know - Am I good enough to act?

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

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

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

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

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

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish.

I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.

When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.

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.

The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.

When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.