Quotes About Insecurity

I had never fought a guy before that I had put on a pedestal the way I did with Carlos Condit. I've got his walkout shirt. He's a former champion. I'm a huge fan. I doubted myself a lot of times.

I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the road so easily.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

I've searched all of my life for approval from my dad who is not around. So if I can get approval by his fans or from peers and critics, it helps me.

There were boys in my class who would stick pencils in my curls, and say 'oh it's like a cushion' and laugh at me. Even my body type was very different from the other girls in my school. So I grew up thinking that I don't look good enough.

I can't stand when people say, 'Don't hate me because I'm beautiful'. OK, how about I hate you because you said that.

Frankly, you're heading down a dangerous path if you take seriously what people say about you, and I don't read most of it.

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

I'll admit that I am not always 100 percent confident because I'm a woman. I'm a woman and I'm human.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent.

Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.

I've always felt like I'm on the outside. I think certain people judge you right away, and I've always been acutely sensitive to that. I'm fighting, whether it's accurate or not, a perception that I get of people thinking I'm dumb.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

Even top fashion models get critical about one certain part of their body that they do not like. So perfection is impossible.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

I am unfortunately a perfectionist at heart, so it's really hard to allow myself to not be good.

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

I'm too scared to perform onstage. I'm not very good with big crowds.

I'm always nervous when I perform anyway.