Quotes About Insecurity

I know it's a terrible habit, but if I get a pimple, I'll sit in front of the mirror and pick at it for hours.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.

He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him.

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

I wasn't the class nerd, but I was weird. I could tell long stories and be funny, but I couldn't do sports. And I was always terrified of being held back.

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

There were times at the start of it all when I would be standing, terrified, in front of the cameras and people I considered 'real' actors. I had no idea what was happening, what the guy with the clipboard did, or if people in the studio were looking at me because it was their job to look at me or because they thought I was making a mess of things.