Quotes About Insecurity

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.

I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

In my earlier albums like 'Another Year' and 'Just A Boy,' I always saw myself as a bit of a loser - the kind of guy who takes a drink and walks into a wall instead of through the door.

If you deal in hair loss, you constantly check the hairline of anyone who walks up to you. It's the first thing I look at.

I'm afraid if I start to enjoy life, the rug will be yanked out from beneath me.

I'm not Beyonce or Trey Songz or anything, so every now and again, I feel a little like, 'Are they listening to me, or am I just sounding crazy singing to myself?' I feel like that sometimes.

I think we're so often, as writers, afraid of writing something that is less than perfect, and that fear paralyzes us. I'm a big fan of writing less than perfect things.

Who hasn't had a weight issue? If not the body, certainly the big head!

Acne has always been a big problem of mine.

When you first start out, it's a big thing you're always like 'does my voice sound good?'

Am I good enough? That's a big thing. Sometimes I do put on a front of 'I'm amazing' and I do believe it, but sometimes I don't believe it.

The biggest problem for people who get really, really nervous when they perform live is that you think everybody's looking at you.

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.

When your touch goes, it starts biting into your confidence as well.

No one wants to see my bits jiggling.

To be amongst people that know their lines and you're the only person that doesn't is just bizarre.

I struggle because I really don't want to be married again - can you blame me? - but I don't want to be alone.

I think a lot of me trying to blend in was me co-opting the racism that was used against me in a way - being OK with it.

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to.