Shelley Fabares Quotes

I never seem to get past - I feel like a stupid guy from the Midwest.

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

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

I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

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 failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

As a teenager I was very anxious. I had a lot of energy and passion that I wanted to channel into creative things, and I always felt like I wasn't achieving enough.

He [Richard Nixon] was more lacking in self-confidence than any leading politician I have known.