Quotes About Insecurity

That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.

And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.

Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

My mind and gut are never simpatico: Every time I think somebody likes me, she doesn't; every time I think somebody doesn't like me, she does. This has never changed and I'm certain it never will.

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.