Quotes About Insecurity

Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.

I was painfully shy as a child.

I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.

I was really shy growing up. I had braces, headgear, and no boobs - still don't. So, the boys weren't interested in me. The only way I could get attention was by being a goof and a dork, which meant a lot of physical comedy.

As a kid, I was very shy.

Growing up, if I had been given any advice - bad or good - I probably wouldn't have been able to act on it regardless. I wasn't shy, but I'd get nervous. I got a little more confident later in high school when I realized I could get girls to pay attention to me by making them laugh.

I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me.

I was actually a really sort of nervous, shy kid. In high school, it was one of those things where I wasn't popular or a loser; I just don't think many people really knew who I was.

I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on.

I didn't think rap was me. But I was shy to sing in front of people. It'd be so off because I was shy.

I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that's why I became a writer.

As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.

I've always been very shy. Now I don't care anymore.

I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak.

It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music and loved writing songs. I always thought I'd be in the background and, if I did get into a band, be a backup musician.

I am still shy when I go to interviews.

I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.

I am a shy person who is not very okay with the camera.

I was quite a shy person growing up, and drag was very much a shield for me to perform behind.

I'm quite a shy person, and I dislike narcissism intensely.

Ironically, becoming known publicly was my biggest fear. And it was partly because I'm on the whole a fairly shy person.