Quotes About Insecurity

Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.

I was under so much pressure. I often felt scared.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Even if people pretend that they're OK with it, jealousy can eat people alive.

You'd think maybe I can pretend I'm an expert on love, but I'm not.

Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

Sadly, you can't just pretend that you haven't seen the creepy things that people have said about you. It's something that gets in your brain.

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.

Girls in my school were always prettier.

Honestly, I think there are many celebrities out there who are prettier than me.

I look back at my old school journals, and they're full of self-hatred, full of me condemning myself for not being prettier, richer, more popular.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.

I always wanted to be the pretty girl, but I thought I wasn't. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

I was really heavy growing up, so it was never feeling like the pretty girl, never being popular.

Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.

I felt like I needed to be a 'pretty girl' for someone else. I felt like I needed to change a lot about who I actually was to be perfect for them instead of just being who I am genuinely.

I'm the world's worst dancer. I have dancephobia.

I was so nervous about dancing because I've always thought of myself as a terrible dancer.