Quotes About Insecurity

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.

I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn't talk to anybody. I didn't look you in the eye. I just had that kind of personality as a kid that basically puts a target on you.

I grew up really timid, anxious kid, and I never really had to stand up for myself.

I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

All Scandinavians feel a tiny bit self conscious, of which I'm one.

The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Then when I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it.

I haven't always been the best advocate for my own body. I was a too-tall, pudgy child who felt completely out of control of the genetic lottery ticket she'd been given, so in retaliation, I shut down. I ignored my body and hated it for not being tiny and cute like my friends' bodies.

'Jhankaar Beats' is a great movie with fabulous music. But when I see myself in it as an actor, I feel so tiny and young.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

I'm terrible with titles.

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

I never thought I was particularly talented, and to be honest with you, I still don't.

I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

To be honest with you, I literally don't even know how to style my hair unless I'm doing an event because I rely on hair stylists.

Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.

I'm not the most confident dancer, to be honest. Dancing on film was very difficult for me because you can see it after it's been done.

I always wanted to do something with music, but to be honest, I never thought I'd be good enough.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.