Quotes About Insecurity

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

You just have to be comfortable in your own skin before you jump into something where people that you're going against are going to be better than you in some way every time.

Junior and senior high school years were not a good time.

Junior high and elementary school, those girls were so, so mean to me.

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

Being an actor is just kind of embarrassing.

I don't get too, like, you know, freaked out or nervous around famous people. But for some reason, Yvonne Orji is just one of those people where I'm like, I'm too - I would be too nervous to meet her.

I think in the world of Internet trolls, people can shake your confidence really easily, with just one comment. As long as you can stand behind your work, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks!

Growing up, I wanted straight hair so bad, like Justin Bieber.

Im too keen for people to like me. If I didnt care so much, I would be more decisive. I spend a lot of time concerning myself with what other people will think of my actions, which makes me very indecisive.

These days I settle for feeling only 85 percent sure about most things, most of the time. I believe this is keeping me sane, and I also believe that it's keeping me human. In fact, I'm 85 percent sure of it.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

I was such a scared cling-on-to-my-mum's-leg kind of girl, even when I was 15, 16. If I was in McDonald's and I needed ketchup, I wouldn't go up and ask. I'd be too shy.

Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'

I was getting a little bit bullied by guys who thought I was taking their customers, and it got to the point where I was anxious every time I set up my keyboard.

Every year you've got somebody coming in and trying to kick you off, so you have to prove yourself. Even for the coaches, too. Their jobs are always on the line.

My school was pretty tough, and I played football there so I would be accepted, to save myself a kicking.

I don't like anything I see of myself on screen. I might like one scene or a few shots, but mostly I feel bad and keep kicking myself.

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

I was never cool as a kid.

I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding.