5 Celebrities on Dealing With Their Own Self-Doubt

Robert Pattinson
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Rob often doubts his own acting talent: “I still have lots of doubts about myself. The people I work with know this. Three weeks before filming, I just panic and call my family or friends telling them I will never be able to do it… At that moment I really think it is the truth, my confidence leaves me, reduced in tatters. And then it is back when I enter the set. Even knowing this, the next time, it happens again. The people around me don’t even listen to me anymore…”

Gwyneth Paltrow
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Gwyneth has become a perfectionist to hide her own self-doubt: “One of my most negative qualities is the perfectionism that I have, and I think that I unconsciously project that because it comes from self-doubt and insecurity and that’s the ironic part. I’m so deeply flawed.”