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Quotes About Insecurity

Everybody doubts themselves. Every writer doubts themselves, every artist doubts himself, and every football player does.
~ Edwin van der Sar
I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.
~ David Crosby
I feel like I have a big forehead.
~ Ad-Rock
Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.
~ Sandra Bullock
In a certain sense, every time you sit down to write a song, there's a fear that you've forgotten how to do it.
~ Matthew Ramsey
It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
~ Haley Bennett
How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.
~ Sophie Dahl
From the bottom of my heart, I've always found compliments hard to take. It makes me feel awkward.
~ Bradley Wright-Phillips
I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through.
~ Kaya Scodelario
For Fox, it's extremely discomfiting not to be No. 1 all day, every day.
~ Brian Stelter
Fragile egos are put on the line every day.
~ Mary Lou Retton
Confidence is a fragile thing.
~ Bill Cowher
As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.
~ Azzedine Alaia
Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.
~ Mindy Kaling
Most men are fragile.
~ Taraji P. Henson
People who put Europe in the center of the universe, they're very fragile.
~ Rhiannon Giddens
Coming from my past experiences, I've been the player who used to worry all the time, and I'd get so nervous and frantic when I was young.
~ Lindsey Horan
As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.
~ Lydia Leonard
Most artists think they're frauds anyway.
~ John Milius
Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.
~ Sheridan Smith
I always felt like a fraud.
~ Zoey Tur
I've had people say so much, that I'm a fraud. I've had people email me and say, 'You're going to die.'
~ Mike Hughes
I'm not sure anyone ever feels they belong in showbusiness. I think everyone feels a bit of a fraud, that one day they'll get rumbled.
~ Angus Deayton
I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.
~ Carrie Brownstein