Helen Dunmore Quotes

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

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 wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

I've reached the age of 32 with little wisdom, I'm afraid. It's tragic. I still have to turn to my mum and dad for every decision I make in life.

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

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

My freshman year, I was such an immature kid and I didn't know what to expect, I didn't know what I wanted or what I could do or what my abilities were off the court.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.