Shraddha Kapoor Quotes

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

I hate bad reviews, so yeah, every now and then I think, 'Boy I hope everybody really likes this and thinks this theme is good.' You can't help but do that. I think we all are, or at least I am, reduced to a schoolboy seeking approval.

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

I've got so many weaknesses.

Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

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.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'

I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

Of course I don't think I have it made by any means. I'm too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that.

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.