Quotes About Insecurity

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

We were at this point of recognisability where we couldn't even walk around anymore... I was really socially anxious and strange.

I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.

I was very shy and socially awkward.

Having money didn't make me less of a socially incapable loser; it just made me a socially incapable loser who wasn't in debt.

The lack of societal and institutional safeguards provides fertile ground for populist movements fueled by fear.

I don't feel like I'm the type of performer who's going to knock your socks off. I'm trying to get over my nerves.

I was working with the fire service in a job that should have been a job for life, with career progression, with a pension and promotion, and within a year I was sleeping on a sofa under a section 21 notice being evicted from my home and not eating or four days.

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

When I was a bit younger, I made too much of trying to stick up for myself. But I don't need to prove that I'm not soft or too young any more.

I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.

In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.

The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.

Every time I got to play a show, even if it's already sold out, I'm so scared no one's going to come.

I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.

I'd sold more records than any other person in history with one album, at that point, in '76. It became a very scary place for me, because I didn't know whose advice to ask and lost my confidence in my own gut feelings about everything.

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

No matter how many books I've sold, nothing can correct the fact I look like Alfred Hitchcock from the side.

As an actor, so much of life is out of your control, and it's really not solid.

The precariat has been losing cultural rights in that those in it feel they cannot and do not belong to any community that gives them secure identity or a sense of solidarity and reciprocity, of mutual support.

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.

When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.

We should have solved the current insecurity in the Northeast and South by now. Are the states able to shoulder the burden of the police? You cannot just give someone guns and ammunition, train him, and refuse to pay him.