Edie McClurg Quotes

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

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.'

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

I am always in self-doubt... every moment of my filmmaking. I am supremely confident when the story is being written and everything is in our head. But the moment we get into the filmmaking, I start doubting myself - from the camera angle to the re-recording to getting the actors to do their shots.

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.

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

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

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.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

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 never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

I doubt myself for sure. Sometimes it gets that bad when you can't find a rhythm.

I had a crisis of confidence and ran away from being a standup for a while.

I am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.

excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.