Quotes About Insecurity

In this industry, it's very fickle; you don't know where you are.

Television can be a very fickle place.

I was like a closet makeup fiend as a little girl because I knew that I would be guffawed at in school if I wore too much makeup.

Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.'

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid, and people are like, 'You're loud and awful,' you think, 'I guess I am awful,' so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better.

I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.

I want to get something done but I am scared. I said I want to get a filler done. Very little, obviously.

I don't agree with lip filler now, it can be dangerous and I think people need to love the way they are.

I know film industry is not a very healthy place to be in.

When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage.

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

Confidence can be elusive because you don't know you've lost it. It's not something you can put your finger on.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired.

Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.

I always worry what I would have done if I hadn't found comedy. I think what would I have ended up doing? I've worked in a construction firm, fashion company just all things where I wasn't very good at my job.

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

I've always wanted to be the first one to laugh at me. I didn't want to get up on stage and start doing something and have someone say, 'Are you serious? Do you think that's good?'

As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

During my career path, I've experienced first-hand what people deem as beautiful. It's not me. It's not most people. It's limited and small.

For black people who are really dark - and a lot of black people were averse to be dark skinned - it was believed that you'd be so dark that you couldn't see them at night unless they were smiling or you could see the whites of their eyes. At one time, it was a sharp comic barb that got levelled at some people.