Quotes About Insecurity

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

I used to pray every night: 'Please let me look all right from the front.' I didn't care about real life, but I wanted to look good for theatre audiences - I worried about having a funny nose.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period of time, and you are only as good as the last contract you have got, as the last job you have done, where the notion of a precarious existence does exist, as it does for a lot of people.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.

Thinking things like, 'I will never get hired for this job,' or 'Nobody ever listens to me,' can alter your behavior in a way that makes those predictions come true.

People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an anxiety and an unending insecurity. It's a very American thing because back in the past, we lost our fathers or father. The king.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

I don't know any people that like watching themselves. I prefer not to.

I don't want to say that women who do use makeup or get breast implants or have fake nails are insecure. They're entitled to that, and they should do that if that's what they want to do. But for me, there are no answers. It's just a matter of preference and choice and fetish.

When I got pregnant with my daughter, both my husband and I were freelancers, and we didn't have that much security. We had savings. We were better off than many people, but we didn't have, you know, pensions and all the things that people used to have.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there.

When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.

I was just painfully shy. I couldn't talk to anyone. Going up in front of class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to raise my hand.

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well.

I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy.

I read the 'Fargo' hashtag and what people tweeted at me and every article and every comment on every article. I really just ate it up. But I wasn't prepared for hearing what everybody thought of me.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

Being part of 'Game of Thrones,' you're always expecting your character to die. You're not mentally preparing yourself for a very long haul.

I was a shy child. I had anxiety. I used to cry when I had to give a presentation.