Quotes About Insecurity

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

When I was about eight, my mom started disappearing for days at a time, probably with one of the guys she was dating. There would be no food.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

I'm not bamboozled by the fact that people are disgusted by me. I'm not my biggest fan either.

I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

When I got done at Duke, I almost felt ashamed of it. I almost tried to distance myself from being the Duke guy.

Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts.

I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

I went to art school for four years to learn a very expensive lesson - that there are many other artists who are way better than me.

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.

I can't pick up the phone to everybody that doubts me and explain myself.

I was afraid to express myself for a while.