Quotes About Insecurity

It's human nature - we want to be chosen, we want to be picked and when there's this thing that isn't choosing you, that can affect your self-confidence and your self-worth.

I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

At certain times, you start to - maybe not lose the faith - but just wonder how long it will take until someone picks me up. I was thinking, 'Is it just me? Do I think I'm better than any manager does?'

It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'

I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'

I have a fat head - I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

I remember, the first few times I modelled, other girls laughed at my big behind. I felt like a fat pig, even though I really wasn't. When you are 15 and other girls nick-name you a 'little piggy' and 'fatty,' you believe them.

Men have been domesticated, and I don't think it's necessarily good for them. They have been emasculated with the pill and women becoming more independent. I do think it's made a big difference for women to have more charge of their own bodies. It's made them feel more on equal terms and made the men feel less secure, less the master of everything.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

It was always difficult for me to listen to my singing voice for the first 20 years or so. I mean, I really enjoyed singing, and I enjoyed doing live shows, but being in a recording studio and having to hear my voice played back to me would really drive me up the wall.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

Daleks scared the hell out of me, to the point where I wouldn't go round to another boy's house because he had Dalek wallpaper in his bedroom.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

When I first started out in the band, I had so many walls up.

I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to hear from me? What do I have to add to all of this?'

When you're an insecure teenager, you build walls and defenses and masks, and those are incredibly satisfying to perform and chip away at. I mean, when I was an insecure teenager, you'd have had no idea what I was insecure about because I hid it so well. Only confident people are comfortable wearing their vulnerabilities on their sleeve.