Quotes About Insecurity

I wasn't bullied by the mean girls in high school. I'm just bullied by adults and teenagers all over the world.

Most young American actors feel like teenagers.

When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine spread in a women's magazine or teen girl magazine and say, 'I'd never buy this outfit. I know these girls are starving themselves.' But they probably would go out and buy the thing eventually.

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

In my teens, I was very insecure. And so I invented Roger Moore.

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

We work in a business where you feel you always have to say yes because you never know when you will work again. But I found myself questioning that paranoia, which I'd grown up with ever since I started working in the theatre in my late teens.

I was this very self-conscious, shy person once I hit my teens.

Young people are intimidating. But I really want them to like me. There is something about a group of teens that turns me into a performing monkey.

As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.

I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'

I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me.

I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth.

I used to be insecure and cover my mouth because I felt like my teeth were too big or I was embarrassed that I might say something stupid.

I was not the most attractive child. I had two really big buck teeth. I was horrendous - long, lanky and gangly.

I remember after the second episode of 'Saturday Night Takeaway' aired, there were thousands of comments about how bad my teeth were. That got to me most because I was so insecure about my teeth as a child.

I can't stand to see myself on television.

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.

I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend.