George Clooney Quotes

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

I'm kind of stupid.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

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.

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

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.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

It's funny, I never think I'm doing that well. I've never, ever. I just constantly think, 'This isn't working out.'

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

I feel like I'm a beginner in everything in life.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

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

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

I was wracked with insecurity.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.