Quotes About Insecurity

The reason why fear is so powerful is because you believe it to be stronger than you."

I was insecure about sex. I've grown more secure. I used to use the amateur phylactics, and I only use the prophylactics now.

We are a society that sheds spouses and takes on new lovers faster than a raja can work through his harem. We dissolve entire families on a whimsy of lust. We pursue bald ambition as if it were the true religion, leaving our children to come home to empty houses, to fix their own meals, to cope with the crippling insecurities of adolescence, while we engage in an endless chase after the grail of possessions. And we have the audacity to wonder who killed the innocence of childhood.

Ah, you poor fools, walking so tall and haughty with your guns and your sticks and your wide belts full of gear like the second coming of Batman, sitting in your little cars full of mechanized fear as you reach for your little radios at the first sign of anything more worrisome than a jaywalker.

Even though they knew intellectually that they had not been guilty of sabotaging the relationship, each woman couldn't help but look for a rational explanation and wonder whether it was something she did—or neglected to do—that set the man off. But in most cases, nothing went wrong in the relationship. In fact, part of the problem is that he backs off when things are going too well. You see, the only thing wrong is that this man simply cannot make a commitment.

I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

I am too insecure to crash early. I feel life will pass me by while I'm sleeping.

I'm a self-loathing slide player. Some people like the way I play slide - I hate it.

I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed.

I think I have a slight fear of intimacy.

Over the years, I've had a slight ebbing and flowing of confidence in my non-comedic role abilities.

One thing that does seem to particularly annoy people is my voice and my very slight, to me unnoticeable, speech impediment.

I always had a slight problem in that my older brother is extremely bright. He's a neurophysiologist and a don at Magdalen College, and I always felt I was stupid because I couldn't get anything like the same results as him.

I could live in a house in the sky with a golden car and have a billion dollars in the bank, and I'd still have a chip on my shoulder. When I feel slighted, I hold on to that. It's a good thing.

People who are stone-cold immovably delusional are probably people that didn't have great relationships and feel slighted.

I thought psychologists were people who rob, figuratively of course, money from the insecure. But they are not. They are people who are there to help you, and if you find a good psychologist, they will allow you to talk about everything and open up, without the slightest of fears, and that is no easy thing.

I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.

I'd be lying if I said there weren't times when I hadn't lost a little bit of confidence. But the people around me, close to me, were the ones to tell me I'd been playing slightly differently, not as confidently as I had been.

I was always the slightly fat kid, which used to bother me quite a bit.

I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.

When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'