Quotes About Insecurity

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

It's so embarrassing and painful to be young.

It's painful when you see your boyfriend flirting with some girl or you know he's been with somebody on the road.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

Labour allowed ourselves to be painted as anti-business for talking about insecurity, when in reality, the opposite was true.

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.

My paintings are rubbish.

I'm pale, and people need to accept that I'm almost see-through.

I felt embarrassed about how my body looked being so pale.

For years I hated being pale.

If I had three pancakes in the morning I'd be like, Oh, I feel a little full, did I eat too much? Maybe I ate too much, I don't feel perfect, what's going on?' It just snowballs.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

When we were writing for Panic whether we knew it or not, having that name over the songs we were trying to do made me second guess things and change things. I started to go against my instincts.

If you have to mask the things you're insecure about, go ahead. Wear four pairs of pantyhose, pad your hips, boost your boobs - whatever it takes to walk out of the house feeling like you own the world. Because there's no reason to waste your life hating something you can change.

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

I'm the kind of person who can paralyze myself very easily by over-thinking decisions.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.