Quotes About Insecurity

The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.

I would never dare say that I'm an artist.

I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.

I am extremely scared of water, darkness and am claustrophobic.

I had a lot of friends who were boys. I played ball with them, but we didn't date. They didn't ask me that much because I wasn't cute enough or because I didn't drink or party.

My issue was I was always the friend and never the girl, so I always had crushes on guys, and they all wanted to date my friends.

I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

'Dear Society' really is my letter to society where I express the anguish I've been caused from such an image-based industry and culture we live in.

I was on 'Gilmore Girls' for seven years and had a couple decent years after that. Then, two years of almost nothing. I had jobs here and there, but I got very, very scared.

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

My voice broke very late. I think that, deep down, I knew that once it broke, my self-esteem would plummet, as I'd never be head chorister again.

I'm very shy deep down.

I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

I wasn't the kind of guy who was like 'here's my demo,' or 'listen to my demo.' I just never thought it was that good.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous, and I am capable of doing something to blow it on purpose. A lot of actors have that problem.

I'd always suspected my face wouldn't fit in drama departments. And it never did!

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.