Quotes About Insecurity

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.

My friends and I did one of those 'Who's Hot and Who's Not' lists. Every school has those, and now they are online, which makes it even worse. It was one of those moments that I look back on a lot, and think that was horrible.

I always Google myself. It's horrible.

It is a horrible feeling to have people bashing you online.

You'd assume I was being bullied a tonne at school and it was horrible, but in reality, I really was getting bullied everywhere else.

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.

I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.

The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing these awful books. And there's something sort of horrifying about it.

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.

I was very green when I started on 'General Hospital' and it really challenged me. There were times I began to doubt myself a lot.

I was such a bad red-carpet host.

I don't think I'm a good host. I'm not a good host. I'm terrible at hosting. That's my problem.

I was not the hot, popular girl in school.

Maybe I'm just as bad as my critics who hound me.

You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.

I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

When I am around people I most admire, I tend to hug the wall.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

Writing is so humbling; there's no confidence involved.

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do.