Quotes About Insecurity

Forgive me for my unbelief [in myself]. If I realized how valuable I am, my insatiable need for affirmation would be quieted. Forgive me for being such a perfectionist that I resist doing something good out of fear that it won't be great.

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

I never saw myself as an actor. I neither had the looks nor the backing required to be an actor.

The day an actor is not required, the day no one is writing for you, is when you're actually dead... That's a very scary moment.

Research shows that when children have no body confidence at school they're less likely to put their hand up in class and ask a question.

I have reservations about everything I do.

My parents didn't allow me to do all the things the cool kids could do. I was quiet, reserved, and at some points, taken complete advantage of simply because of my sex and gender. For a while, in high school, I was so deep into self-hate.

I am a permanent legal resident of this country, I was born in Korea; my parents came to America for a better life for our family, I've lived here nearly my whole life, and even though I consider myself through and through Korean and American, I guess when it comes down to it, anyone can take away my identity. It doesn't belong to me.

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.

I hate jealousy so much that if I ever do feel it, I try to shut it down immediately, but it's so hard.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention.

Lots of shy people dress a bit too much. It's just kind of an armour. People say the same thing about me.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

There are times when I'm kind of anti-social, I'm just really shy, and I don't feel like I fit in, and I then attribute that to some emotional state that's crippling me.

I was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.

I wasn't your normal plus-size girl who would dress in all black and hide in the shadows. I was very out there. But I was very shy and insecure about certain things.

Until I was about 14, I was so shy.

I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.

I was so shy, I didn't have friends 'til 16 or something.