Quotes About Insecurity

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.

I've always been aware of the emphasis on beauty in Hollywood, and I think that as one does get older, it can be scary.

The acting life can be quite scary, really.

Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing.

A lot of people behind the scenes were telling me that I was going to have to do something with my hair, my weight, all of that stuff.

My whole life I've never felt, as a female, I was up to scratch.

I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

I hate watching myself on screen! I absolutely hate it, it's so hard to watch. I can see myself in magazines, but watching on TV or movies is like, 'Ugh.'

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

I never like seeing myself on screen.

I don't like seeing myself on screen. Whenever I see or hear myself, I think, 'What is that eejet doing now?' I'm in the wrong business. I don't like the limelight.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.

I've always had to work to feel reassured, to feel secure, and that's not nice because you don't know where you stand.

The entertainment industry isn't secure.

I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change.

Once you realize security can't even secure themselves, how the hell they gonna secure you?

I don't feel secure as an actor. I want to do more films and get accepted by masses.

If I'm put in a situation where I am not really sure what's going to happen, it can be overwhelming. I get a bit anxious.

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.