Jennifer Coolidge on How to Deal With Self-Doubt
“Well, I’m gonna get a lot of hell for saying this. I just want to put it out there. I know, I am. This is going to be a something that I might regret saying, but…I think one of the best things to cure self-doubt is just to go to really bad stuff. I’m talking about plays you hear about that are terrible–go to them. There’s shows on television that are terrible–watch them. No, because it just it’s like…I’ll tell you how I got this idea. I was like in college, and I just hated myself and I was so full of self-doubt, and anyway, I went to this terrible production of Oliver. And it was just literally like…I mean, everyone was bad in it, the whole show. I mean, it was just…and I felt like the seas had parted. I felt like I had a chance in this world, you know? Not the good stuff! The good stuff is just intimidating, and you’re like, how could I ever fucking do that?”