Quotes About Insecurity

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

I found myself at a time in my career trying to impress everyone. I was constantly thinking about what everyone thought of my music.

You can't have a conversation with someone who's intimidated by you all the time.

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.