Quotes About Insecurity

An actor doesn't have a regular job. He is dependent upon the roles which are given him.

My face is asymmetric, so it looks very different depending on where the camera shoots. That's my biggest complex.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

I knew very early on that I was not pretty. No one ever called me pretty. It was not the go-to adjective people used to describe me.

I'm told by designers I have a sexy body and I accept that but I never actually feel sexy.

Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.

If you're desperate enough for attention, any attention will make you feel better.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

When I was writing Shadow and Bone,' I really had no confidence as a writer. I had never finished a book before and I desperately wanted to finish a book for the first time.

I despised trying to lose weight, and I resented everyone that made me feel like I had to.

Fear is a destruction of creativity.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.

When I re-read my diaries, it's the self-doubt that seems to be prevalent.

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.

Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

There is no gainsaying that Lurch has put me where I am today. Lurch bought the house I live in. But what's going to happen to a guy like me when it's over? What happens when the show dies in maybe five years? Do I die too? No! I want to go on with other things.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

I think everyone at school experiences some form of bullying. With kids at school, it can be anything - it can be your shoes or the wrong bag or anything. If you are big like I am, you are always going to be a target. So I decided at school to make myself an even bigger target, if you like: to make myself as big as I could be.

We all know what it feels like to be an outcast or a loner or to fall between the cracks. To be the target of gossip or people talking about you, or girls are ganging up on you. One minute, they're your best friend; the next, they call you on three-way.

I was small growing up, and to make matters worse, I wore glasses, and my mother dressed me in attention-getting outfits. I was a target of bullies.