Quotes About Insecurity

As a child my life was shrouded by fear. Every night I would crawl into the alcove outside my sisters' bedrooms and sleep on the floor, just to feel as though I wasn't alone.

Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.

I used to second guess myself all the time. I can sit there and work in circles when I'm nervous about what I'm doing.

My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

I remember one day sitting in the mirror with a saxophone, just looking at myself, being like, 'I can't do this; this is ridiculous.'

Anytime I fly anywhere, I think... well, this could be it. I try so hard not to think like that, but I just can't get my head around the concept that this gigantic piece of machinery is 35,000 feet in the air, and I'm sitting in it.

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations.

I've definitely been in situations where I could tell someone was interested in me, but I could tell they were insulting me in some passive/aggressive way, so I felt bad about myself at the same time.

I have this part in myself that sometimes gets me into situations that can never end well, just because I want to prove to myself that I'm no good.

I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem.

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

I always felt stupid at the skate park. Everyone else is just wiping out and getting hurt, but they didn't even have helmets and knee pads - and I'm over here looking like some kind of marshmallow. I felt so ridiculous.

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

I don't have the expertise in that department, I seriously lack the skill to market myself.

At certain points, I was afraid there was something - a missing chink of skill - that was going to prevent me from having a movie that was financially successful. That frightened me.

I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.

I love African American women, but I just don't like my skin complexion.

I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

I think if you don't like being in your skin, it doesn't matter how many times people say you're beautiful, how many jobs you get, or whatever it is - I just didn't want to be Adwoa.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

I'd like less Irish-looking skin.