Quotes About Insecurity

Comedy kind of terrifies me. I feel pretty intimidated.

Rather than enjoying my success I was stressing about it. Wanting it, but at the same time I couldn't handle the consequences. I was intimidated by people.

I had a difficult childhood. I had lots of anxiety and questions. I found the world scary and intimidating.

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

Sometimes, I myself, even though I'm in Washington, I go quiet because there is so much intimidation around me.

I just knew I loved music, and I wanted to do something in music, but I couldn't sing, I can't dance, I am an introvert. So I was like, 'What exactly is there for me to do? What can I do?' There's all these questions, there's all these things that are telling you 'no' instead of 'yes.' Those are the things I dealt a lot with, my insecurity.

When my mum passed away, I was very young, and I became very introverted and very quiet. I became very anxious about what people thought about me.

I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.

I was 18 and had an inverted light bulb moment where I thought that nothing I could do or say or how I looked was ever going to be good enough.

You might have a worry that's so stupid it just peters out by itself, like a bad investment.

On stage, I feel like I'm invincible, like nothing bad can happen. I can be myself. I feel like I shrink when I'm off stage.

I didn't want to be invisible. I don't know what I wanted to be, but it wasn't invisible.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

Almost every day, someone asks if I ever flat iron my hair. I say, 'No, because I'm afraid it wouldn't look good and wouldn't come back curly.'

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work. For some reason, I always have an irrational fear that the song will never be finished.

We all need to be a part of the fight against injustice, insecurity and irresponsibility towards children and the world.

I have moles and freckles, and they irritate me. They are an insecurity of mine, and I wish I could have clear, beautiful skin.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

In Italy, managers don't know how long they're going to be in charge for and there's always rumors about someone taking over.

Women are constantly taught to think about what other people are thinking, from those 'Jackie' magazine quizzes - 'What's he thinking?' - to being a grown adult.

When I fought Benson Henderson for the first time, or Jamie Varner, it was always like, 'Oh man... I'm in here fighting these guys. Do I really belong here?' That's all changed now.

You're never safe in 'Jane the Virgin;' that's what I'll say. You're never safe on a telenovela, that's for darn sure, and you're never safe on 'Jane the Virgin.'