Quotes About Insecurity

You will be loved the day when you will be able to show your weakness without the other person using it to assert his strength.

The less replaceable you think you are, the more replaceable you are (and the less desirable you become).

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

I love him, I said, but even to my own ears I didn't sound happy about it.

Your life was not right when you were actually surprised that someone didn't want to kill you.

But if I went into the employees' bathroom or the public ladies' room, I'd end up crying, because it hurt to be admonished and it hurt to be wrong; but most of all, it hurt to be put in my place.

I enjoyed my arms around him, the sense of him next to me. And if you were to ask me, I would confess that I thought Sam and I would be together, maybe by Christmas, maybe for always. I couldn't imagine a future without him. But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here.

the pain in my middle was the unmistakable pain of rejection. I knew the feeling so well, it was like a second skin. I sure hated to crawl back inside it.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

When you are lacking in confidence, the last thing you want to do is perform.

When I feel jealous, I try to understand where it is coming from and how to better myself where I feel I am lacking.

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do theater. I wanted to be the grand dame of the American stage.

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

I feel like when the people in 'Insecure' are honest, the characters learn the most. This show has grown my cynicism a little a bit about relationships just because the way men and women responded to the fact that Issa was cheating on her boyfriend.

Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Of course I'm happy when people mention his name and mine in the same breath. It's like a dream. But I know they are overpraising 'Your Name' because I am absolutely not at Miyazaki's level. Honestly, I really don't want Miyazaki to see it because he will see all its flaws.

I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.