Quotes About Insecurity

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute, the world changed for me.

The scary thing is that I sometimes think, 'Oh, I've won a Bafta. This could be the top of the precipice.'

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

I wasn't a star and I wasn't a handsome person, so I thought I would become a burden for director Shin Won Ho.

I've been going bald since I was about 17. I'm still hanging on to my hair for dear life, but I do sometimes wonder - should I get a wig?

I wasn't handsome. I didn't have good clothes. I used to wonder why people would hire me when they could get college graduates and Oxford scholars. Then it became apparent that when I got up on a stage, people actually wanted to look at me.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It's a double thing. Security and insecurity.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.

People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.

I remember sitting by my window, wishing upon the stars that my skin condition would go away. I wondered, 'Why me?'

When I came out, I wondered whether I had a future not just professionally but romantically. Would I be able to find someone who loved me?

Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.

It might sound strange to describe New Yorkers as insecure when they delight so much in the cult of success. The display of wealth here, especially new wealth, is indeed wonderfully frank, from the super-long limousines which clog up the roads to the voluptuous fur coats that adorn both men and women.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.

It's an epidemic. Instead of socialising and having proper conversations, we're staring at pictures of models in bikinis and wondering how they look like that. It's like self-loathing.