Self esteem and actors
Many creative people report feeling incompetent, inadequate and having low self esteem at times. But there are ways to shift those feelings.
A number of film actors report they don’t watch their own movies. When you can be seen in close-ups on twenty foot high theater screens, it may be especially hard not to criticize your appearance and performance.
Kate Winslet has admitted that before going off to a movie shoot, she sometimes thinks, “I’m a fraud, and they’re going to fire me… I’m fat; I’m ugly..”
More on The Inner Actor
- Can self-doubt be a good thing?
- Giving ourselves our own credentials
- Self-esteem and expressing our talents
- Anna Paquin and others on realizing multiple talents
- Dealing with self-criticism
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