Quotes About Insecurity

I think, for me, I just keep feeling the need to prove yourself, and thats probably from having a slightly overpowering father.

Im good at getting information and synthesizing it. Its not that I doubt myself on that. Its, do you have the Ph.D. first-class brain or do you have the really good second-class brain? Because I came from a very academic culture, I always slightly felt I wasnt in the very top group.

I'm deleting all my editing apps I used to slim myself down and airbrush pics.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

In the beginning, people watched me to hate on me. They thought Miranda was a real person. People just couldn't understand why this strange girl was so confident. And then slowly, I started getting fans.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.

I'm a big girl, so I want somebody that's going to make me look a little bit smaller.

I definitely feel the pressure to lose weight and be smaller than I am.

I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

I've had people tell me I'm fat, and I'm like one of the smallest people I've met in my life.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

In America, nobody's boyfriend wants them to be smarter than he is, and no one wants to admit it.

I was embarrassed about being Indian and I was very introverted. My mom would pack me Indian food for lunch. All the kids had their Lunchables and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and I had rice and dal. They would say, 'Does your house smell like curry? You smell like curry!' So, I'd never eat lunch, really. Or, I'd hide to eat lunch.

I'm so envious of that genetic wiring that immediately puts a smile on your face. My genetic wiring just puts creases in my eyebrows.

Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Women do come up to me, and they tell me what they think! I've gotten great compliments on my eyes and my smile. But I don't see myself as sexy.