Quotes About Insecurity

hated that she'd allowed him to make her feel small.

People always feared what they didn't understand.

It had been years since he'd felt comfortable in his own skin, since he'd trusted his instincts. Since he'd looked in the mirror without avoiding his own gaze.

Blond hair, not too blond. Blue eyes—again, not too blue. Awkwardly shaped mouth that never quite held still the way she wanted it to, and the same nondescript nose with the same seven freckles, including the one close to her eye that no one ever noticed but her. It looked like Ireland. She didn't know why that interested her, but it always had.

Alguma coisa murchou dentro de Daphne nesse momento, e ela ficou com muito medo de que tivesse sido o coração. Não soube como argumentar diante do que ele falou. O ódio que Simon nutria pelo pai era claramente muito mais forte do que qualquer amor que pudesse vir a sentir por ela.

Penelope's insides suddenly felt very queer. This was why she shouldn't let whispers from Lady Danbury go to her head. She might manage daring and charm for a fleeting moment, but she had no idea how to follow through.

This is one of those industries where you never have full control of your hair.

At school, I felt out of place. I was bullied. I would think, 'These kids don't like me, they don't accept me,' but I felt like in the entertainment industry, I would fit in.

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Strutting and preening is, in fact, the surest sign of an inferiority complex.

Vince McMahon has the worst inferiority complex of anybody in history.

Growing up homeless many times, it's always ingrained in me this fear that maybe I won't have a roof over my head or maybe things are going to be taken away from me.

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

Writing is inherently scary.

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

Nothing expresses lack of inner confidence like bluster.

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It's the insecure kids.

I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

I used to be insecure about my butt, but I no longer think of clothes as something to make me look skinnier.