Quotes About Insecurity

Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.

I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.'

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time.

It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.

Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be terrible. Every story is like the first I've ever done.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

I don't know many artists who are happy with themselves all of the time.

There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Man will do MANY things to get himself loved. Man will do ALL things to get himself envied.

he could be suspected of knowing anything about the murder, but still he could not be comfortable in the midst of this gossip. It kept him in a cold

The best swordsman does not fear the second best. He fears the worst since there's no telling what that idiot is going to do.

Something's really off. I'm off. I can't do a fucking thing.

Unfortunately nothing happened with the girls. They just ran off giggling into the night. No digits, no dates, not even their names, leaving me feeling dumb and sad, a bit like a broken thermos- fine on the outside, but on the inside nothing but busted glass.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

Beautiful women are the torment of my existence.