Quotes About Insecurity

Janie's a pretty typical teenager — angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her.

On VIDEO: We zoom toward her as she takes off her bra clumsily. She's obviously embarrassed, but she's gone this far and there's no turning back. She stands there with her breasts exposed, trying to look defiant, but she's achingly vulnerable…

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

It was all Ray could do not to pee his green pants.

Hideki had always been the smallest boy in the school, and Yoshio had never let him forget it. Hideki was fourteen years old but looked like he was twelve, with a round boyish face, thin arms and legs, and short-cropped black hair.

The insecure are as self-absorbed as the boastful. The former worry that everyone is watching them. The latter worry that everyone is not.

As you get older, it is harder to have heroes.'

Maybe it was that Hamlet line he referenced, where he wrote about someone who was "protesting" too much.

was broadcasting his doubts.

He was like that child who always wants to join in the others' games, but wants it too badly, so that the other children wonder why they don't already have friends of their own, and end up even less likely to invite them in.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

I definitely lack in self-esteem in my personal life.

If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.

I've always been self-conscious about my personality.

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger.

I have confidence in my personality, because I think that if I talk to people hopefully they will like me, but I don't have confidence in my body.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

I've never personally been anorexic.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.