Quotes About Insecurity

I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

Talent is very dangerous. It alienates people.

I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business.

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.

I don't think I will be able act; I am not talented in that area.

I know I'm not musically talented.

I hate receiving compliments; I hate being told I'm talented or people think I'm going to be a movie star. I always feel that it's forced and fake.

I was known for being talented, but I was still the fat girl. And it wasn't what people were looking for. There's a lot that you hear. There's a lot of cruelty out there. Some of it comes from the executive offices. It comes from other artists at times. It was a very difficult thing to overcome.

I'm not as smart or talented as anyone around me. But they like me.

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

It's never good to compare yourself to anyone, whether it's professional or personal. There is always somebody better, more talented and powerful out there. There is no point of getting sucked into all that.

To this day, I haven't felt like I've made it. I'm waiting for them to pull the rug out from under me. I kind of feel like George Plimpton; I'm just experiencing this whole business with the really talented people.

I have a terrible fear of more talented people than me thinking I'm just a prat who does kids' TV.

Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'

A lot of players are scared to talk because a lot of people aren't financially stable to where they can make comments on how they feel about things and not feel like they will get cut or something like that.

It's incomprehensible for me to hear another dude talk about another's dude's pockets and have that matter and argue about that.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

I never got picked on, but I never had a lot of friends. When I talked to my parents about it, they said, 'They're just jealous because you're beautiful and talented.' It was probably one of the worst things they could have told me, because I became self-conscious.