Quotes About Insecurity

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

The sign that something does matter to us is that we lose our steadiness.

Eliza's constant harping didn't even get to Martha, although it sometimes seemed that Eliza's raison d'etre was to urinate on Martha's parade.

But I do remember how I felt when he said I was pretty. I was disappointed. I felt my lack. I wanted to be beautiful. Beautiful suggests gravitas, importance. Pretty is lightweight and suggests 'somewhat'. I needed him to think of me as beautiful. I felt challenged, as though he had thrown down a gauntlet.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

Nothing about us is right. We're the wrongest kids you've ever seen. Our faces are wrong with zits, we have the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, and I think we might be ugly. Our families are wrong because none of us are rich, our bodies are wrong because we suck at sports, and there's something really wrong with all of our personalities, because nobody likes us, not even the teachers. Teachers make fun of us too, and think we don't notice.

and I was a really fat kid, and that's why I do this to myself.

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

The retreat into sameness—assimilation for those who can manage it—is the most passive and debilitating of responses to political repression, economic insecurity, and a renewed open season on difference.

Personally, I find it very hard to absent myself from any situation, due to overwhelming self-consciousness. There's always a voice in my head passing comment and making sure nothing can be enjoyed for what it is.

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

I used to have really bad skin, and when I was younger, I had a lazy eye. I had to wear a patch and pink-rimmed glasses.

I'm always a little passive and can come across as being pathetic.

You know when actors are very shy and self-effacing? Well, I really love it when people like my work, but I'm also really embarrassed about it. It's strange. And a bit pathetic really.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.

I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.