Laura Schlessinger Quotes

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.

I'm the opposite of the actor that is bursting with confidence who just knows they're going to make it. I'm the guy who's like yeah, probably, it won't happen.

Indecision is the seedling of fear.

Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

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

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

When people have recently asked me my profession, I have not dared to reply.

To me, I don't feel like a dancer. I feel like an idiot trying to be a dancer.

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

I still doubt myself every single day.

I wasn't the most confident kid in school and college.

I fall more on the insecure side of things.

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

I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on.

Insecurities are debilitating a lot of times.

I'm never confident about anything, especially with law.

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.