Carol Loomis Quotes

I always felt like a fraud.

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 still assume that, any day, I'm going to be exposed as a fraud. That, like I once heard Gene Hackman say, the acting police are going to burst in and take away my card.

I'm always super scared of feeling like a fake.

A fear of not being good enough? But that's what drives me.

I'm afraid of me.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl.

I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

I still think I'm not as good as anybody else.

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are.'

People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end.

I've always had confidence issues; I just get scared of doing things wrong.

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.

I still doubt myself every single day.

Despite my career, so much of my life has been dictated by what I'm afraid of: fear that I am not talented. Fear that people will finally realize that I am a boring individual who doesn't have many ambitions beyond starting a family 'at a good time' in life.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

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