Quotes About Insecurity

In school, I was a beanpole with a nose I hadn't grown into.

I never used to like how big my hands were because I hadn't grown into them yet.

It always feel like people are doing more grown-up things than you are.

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

Nothing is absolutely 100 percent guaranteed.

I think as you get older, you realize football as a whole isn't guaranteed.

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because it's not a complete work of art.

It's quite hard sometimes coming into a show where everybody's quite cliquey, where everybody's been set for a number of years and you're the guest star. It's quite difficult, it's nervewracking in a way.

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don't know where the next job is going to come from.

You go from nobody looking at you to people taking second looks. I remember really loving it - and then feeling so guilty for loving it. Like, 'That's gross, Kristen.' Also, telling myself it could go away at any moment, and I'd be so sad.

My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.

Artists tend to get this thing called demo-itis, and I'm extremely guilty of that.

I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

I'm not comfortable around guns.

I am not the fittest guy, I don't have biceps and six-pack abs.

I hate it when anyone in the gym can deadlift more than me.

HD is not forgiving. Once you see your face for the first time in a movie cinema, you run straight to the gym.

If you are in a gym class with other women, and even if you are in shape, you feel like, 'Do they think my legs are not right?' Since you are supposed to be the perfect one, they look for the defects. It's such an embarrassment.

When you play, you do not ask yourself how it feels to be on the bench. You have to live it to understand how difficult it is to be there without being there. To enter a match knowing you do not have the confidence of the coach. To play when you simply don't have the habit of playing.

You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.

My hair has been mocked a lot.

When I was growing up all I ever wanted was straight hair as you want to be the same as everyone else but then last summer a hairdresser friend said, 'let's stop straightening this and keep it curly,' and I've never looked back.