Quotes About Insecurity

I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

Social phobics worry that their interpersonal awkwardness or the physical manifestations of anxiety—their blushing and shaking and stammering and sweating—will somehow reveal them to be weak or incompetent. So they get nervous, and then they stammer or blush, which makes them more nervous, which makes them stammer and blush more, which propels them into a vicious cycle of increasing anxiety and deteriorating performance. Blushing

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

Nothing's secure. Gold's only lead When you stop to think. On your way up, show consideration To the ones you meet on their way down. The Latin root of 'condescension' Means we all sink.

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time.

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

I think the first time you try anything in a public way, you feel really exposed.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there's nothing there. It's just you holding yourself back.

I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time.

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

Early youth is a baffling time

Every time I see myself in print or on TV, I feel like a little white girl. I feel fat.