Mehmet Oz Quotes

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I'm sure there are some things I'm not good at.

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.

All artists have insecurity.

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.

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

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 have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.

Do I have my insecurities? Hell yes, just like anybody else. I can obsess over the most ridiculous things, just like anybody else.

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.

I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.

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

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

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'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

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

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.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

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.

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.

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.'

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 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.