Quotes About Insecurity

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.

I have always been scared of confrontation. My therapist says it stems from my fear of abandonment.

The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.

Jayalalithaa was brutalised from the age of 16 in the cinema world. She therefore bears a psychotic pleasure in humiliating people as she was humiliated. She was deadened to normal human emotions.

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

I don't get bothered by people saying what they say. I'm a happy person and I'm happy with my looks. I'm not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

When I was in high school, I wanted to be so thick that I'd eat all the pizza and all the McDonald's and everything.

I always thought I was really thick.

I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.

I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I saw.

When you're in the public eye, it allows people to see you inhumanely. There's this idea that you have to take the abuse. And when younger journalists, especially young female journalists, ask me how I handle social media, I hate myself when I have to tell them to condition themselves and develop a thick skin.

I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

I didn't love my hair when I was a child. It was lighter than my skin, which made me not love it so much. I was really kind of envious of girls with thicker, longer, more lush hair.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

I had zits on my thighs when I was a kid. I remember feeling so disgusting and grossed out by them.

People called me 'cottage cheese thighs' all through school.

I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird.

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.