William Fichtner Quotes

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

I'm scared of rehearsals, I'm scared of doing all this because I don't feel like I'm an actress.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.

Self-doubt kills talent.

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

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

I know when I am on stage and I'm kind of on the right track - hopefully most of the time. But a lot of time I'm not.

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 have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

When you're not playing, sometimes you're not full of confidence.

I always felt like a fraud.

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

Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does.

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.

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.

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

I have a fear of failure.

I think what all actors share is that, somewhere down in your solar plexus, there's this fear that you're not going to be able to come up with the goods, that this is the one movie where you're going to look like a fool, and they should have cast someone else. And you feel ugly, and you've got three chins, and you've gained too much weight, and you're losing your hair, and there are so many better actors who could do this. But if you've got chops, what you realize is that everybody feels that way, so just show up and do the job.

The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.